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[sjp]

anyone got a good apple cake recipe please I've got a few very good cooking apples I want to use up that are to small to bake.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

Heres Rachel Allens Dutch Apple Cake ( from Bake)

 

2 eggs

175g caster sugar ( plus 15g for sprinkling)

half tsp vanilla extract

75g butter

75 ml milk

125g plain flour

half tsp ground cinnamon

2.25 tsp baking powder

2 small cooking apples

 

20cm square tin

 

pre heat oven to 200oc

line the sides and base of the tin

whisk eggs, 175g sugar and vanilla extract until thick and mousse like and whisk leaves a figure of 8 pattern ( takes about 5mins)

Melt the butter in a pan with the milk, then pour onto eggs whisking all the time. sift in the flour, cinnamon and baking powder, fold carefully into batter so that there are no lumps of flour. Pour into tin and smooth surface.

Peel and core apples and cut into thin slices and arrange over batter. Sprinkle with remaining sugar (15g) and bake for 10 mins at 200oc then reduce temp to 180oc for a further 20-25 mins or until well risen and golden brown.

Allow to cool in tin, cut into squares and serve warm.

[Snowy]

Yum, love apple cake!

I've used leftover stewed apple to make apple and cinnamon muffins in the past. Just stew the apples gently with sugar and add to a plain muffin mix with some cinnamon. Deelicious!

[Olly]

This is a perennial favourite of mine - German Apple Cake

 

1 lb/450g cooking apples, peeled cored and sliced

4 oz/110g butter or margarine

4 oz/110g granulated sugar

8 0z/225g self-raising flour, sifted

a pinch of salt

1 egg, beaten

4 oz sultanas

1/2 level teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 oz demerara sugar

Icing sugar to finish

 

Preheat oven to Gas 5/190deg C/375deg F

Line a 7" cake tin

 

Melt the butter in a large saucepan, remove from heat and stir in the granulated sugar, flour, salt and egg and mix to a smooth dough.

Now put two-thirds of the dough in the cake tin, pressing it as evenly as possible with your hands. Mix the apples,sultanas and cinnamon together and place these in the cake tin over the dough, then sprinkle over the demerara sugar and make as level as possible. Now spread the remaining dough over the apples (I usually break it into little pieces and spread it out to make sure the apples are covered).

Bake for 50-55 minutes or until the top is golden brown. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out and sprinkling with icing sugar.

 

This makes quite a chunky cake, it's really nice eaten warm as a dessert with vanilla ice-cream, but it's just as good cold. You can leave the sultanas out, I have a friend who hates dried fruit so I sometimes make it without, and I usually omit the icing sugar on top as it's sweet enough anyway. I've been making this for years and years and it never fails to please!

[Luvachicken]

That German Apple cake sounds delicious.... I might have to give it a go.