Here’s an original recipe for apple cake. It’s a kind of sponge cake, cut down the middle, filled and covered with apple sauce. The result: a moist dessert!
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30-35 minutes at 350°F (175°C)
Difficulty: easy
Yield: a 20cm/8in. round cake pan
Ingredients
For the Applesauce
- 3.3 lb apples (1.5 kg)
- 1 cup water (250 ml)
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp butter
- 1 cinnamon stick
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp cloves
- the seeds of one vanilla bean + the vanilla bean itself
For the Vanilla Cake
- 1 ½ cup self rising flour (210 g)
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- ½ cup butter at room temperature (113 g)
- 1 cup sugar (225 g)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup whole milk (125 ml)
Instructions
The applesauce can be made the day befor since it is cooked in a slowcooker.
Cut the apples in small pieces. Add all the ingredients in your slow cooker and cook in low for 10 hours. Remove the vanilla bean and the cinnamon stick and place it in the fridge. Alternatively, you can cook the apples with all the ingredients in a saucepan over a low heat until you obtain a compote.
Prepare the vanilla cake: Sift the flour, baking powder and salt in your stand mixer’s bowl.
Beat the butter slowly slowly until the batter looks like coarse sand. Add the sugar and continue to mix in low speed. Add the eggs one at a time.
Pour the vanilla and milk and mix until they are very well incorporated.
Butter and flour a 20cm/8in. round cake pan and pour the batter in it.
Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C / 350°F for about 30 to 35 minutes until the knife comes out clean.
Remove from the oven and let cool.
Cut down the middle to obtain 2 equal parts. Spread a thick layer of applesauce on the lower half.
Cover with the other half of the sponge cake, then with the remaining applesauce and serve.
Inspired from: Culinary Flavors
