Apple cake

Name: Apple cake
Prep time: 21 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 11 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Netherlands
Ingredients: 4 eggs; 7 oz sugar; 7 oz self-rising flour; 7 oz melted butter; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 3 apples; Pinch salt; Sprinkling ground sugar

A Netherlands dessert. Ready in about 1 hour 11 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

21 minPrep (about)
50 minCook (about)
1 hr 11 minTotal time
4Servings
MediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

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3 eggs
5 oz sugar
5 oz self-rising flour Shopping tip: Self-rising flour (UK: self-raising).
5 oz melted butter
2 apples
Sprinkling ground sugar

Spices & seasonings (3): vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, salt

¾ tsp vanilla extract
¾ tsp ground cinnamon
Pinch salt

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Turn the oven on to 350°F.
(350˚F) Grease a cake pan plus line it with baking paper.
Break the four eggs with the sugar in a large bowl.
Beat till they have tripled in volume plus become fluffy.
Sift the self-rising baking flour.
Add it to your egg mixture.
Fold this.
Do it over, preserving as much air as possible.
Add the melted butter.
Mix until mixed.
Add vanilla extract, pinch of salt and cinnamon.
Add your diced apple to the batter and fold them in the batter so that the apple bits are distributed.
Roll the apple bits through some more cinnamon.
Pour the batter in your prepared cake pan plus smooth the top with a spatula.
Place the apple slices over the top of the batter and press lightly.
Sprinkle optionally with some almond shavings.
Bake the apple cake in the heat the oven for about 45-50 minutes, till wooden skewer comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.
Remove the cake from the oven.
Let it cool in your mold for a few minutes.
Remove the cake from the mold.
Let cool completely on a wire rack.
Sprinkle your cooled apple cake with powdered sugar.