Appetizing Apple Cake

The apple ‘harvest’ from our trees is a bit poor this year. I don’t know why exactly, maybe the weather, maybe our lack of understanding the needs of an apple tree. But there are still some good ones that inspire enough to do something special with them. This simple but delicious apple cake for example. It’s just something I quickly made up one evening, because I wanted the smell of warm apples and cinnamon in my house. Cake can be a bit dry sometimes but with the addition of apples it behaves as the perfect base for something moist. I use as many apple chunks as I can cram in to the tin. Eat warm …goes without saying.

Ingredients for the Apple Cake
Square baking tin 20 x 20 cm
100 grams of self raising flour, sifted
100 grams of fresh, soft dairy butter
100 grams of fine sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsps of milk
Vanilla extract
2-3 tart apples in slices or chunks
Lemon juice
Cinnamon
Tbsp of raw cane sugar

This is how you make the Apple Cake
Preheat the oven at 175 °C. Peel the apples, quarter and slice them and pour some lemon juice over them. Set aside. Cream the butter and sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer. Add one egg at the time and beat for a few minutes. Add sifted flour and milk and fold in. Put the mixture in the greased baking tin (or line it with paper) and add the apple slices . Lay them on top of the cake mixture, do not push them in. Sprinkle the top with grated cinnamon and raw cane sugar. Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes (depending on your oven) until golden brown.