Apple cakes

[Rosefriend]

I saw a recipe for a Apple cake on the web and decided to give it a go....beautiful...



and inside...



Here is the translation, especially for Jasmine and Missredhead - don't mind if anyone else uses it - hahahaha!!

50g Butter
4 Eggs
250g Sugar
200g Plain Flour
1 tsp Baking powder (I am sure that you can use self-raising flour instead but we don't have it here)
1 pkt Vanilla Sugar
2 x Crème fraîche
2 x Whipping Cream
2 Packets Vanilla Pudding powder
4 Apples , sliced (I only used two large ones)
Ground almonds

Mix Butter, 2 eggs, 100g Sugar, Flour + baking powder (or SR Flour), and Vanilla Sugar to a dough. Butter a 26cm/10inch spring form and spread the dough, up the sides as well..
Sprinkle ground almonds over the base (to stop the apples making the base soggy)
Slice the apples thinly and place over the almonds.

Mix 150g Sugar, 2 Eggs, 2 x Crème fraîche and 2 packets Vanilla pudding powder together. Whip the cream stiff and fold into the mixture. Pour over the apples slowly.

E 180C/Gas 4 -  1 hour to 1.20min (I needed 1h20m).

Freezes very well. I intended sprinkling some Icing sugar over but realised that my neighbour has borrowed my last lot!!
 Tasted just as good without it.

RF

[Jasmine]

Thanks Rosefriend - I wonder what vanilla pudding powder would be over here

[Rosefriend]

Oct 4, 2013 17:34:25 GMT Jasmine said:

Thanks Rosefriend - I wonder what vanilla pudding powder would be over here

I know you can get Dr. Oetker in the UK - does this ring a bell perhaps??



Vanilla pudding otherwise is Custard (near as) - I would just have to find out how much you need.

RF

[Missredhead]

ooh custard....sounds good....

[Rosefriend]

Missredhead Jasmine I would say (after weighing a packet)that you need 100g custard powder...in total !!

RF

[Jasmine]

Thank you Rosefriend!
Sorry to be as pain but what is vanilla sugar and how much would one packet be?

[Rosefriend]

Oct 4, 2013 18:34:22 GMT Jasmine said:

Thank you Rosefriend!
Sorry to be as pain but what is vanilla sugar and how much would one packet be?

Again Dr Oetker and you should be able to get it in the UK Jasmine -  8 -10 gram packets

[Jasmine]

I guess with the mount of sugar in it anyway some vanilla essence may do!

[Rosefriend]

Oct 4, 2013 19:23:40 GMT Jasmine said:

I guess with the mount of sugar in it anyway some vanilla essence may do!

Never thought of that Jasmine - why not...

The cake doesn't taste sweet actually - just as well as I couldn't have tried it, as I don't really like cake anyway, but OH does and the fact that it freezes well is great. I got a slice out yesterday morning and OH had it with afternoon coffee and he said it was really nice.

RF

[Rosefriend]

Copied/pasted from The Coffee Shop and posted by Barbara Barbara and Tig Tig

The Very Best Apple Dessert Cake from Mary Berry

225g self-raising flour
1 level tsp baking powder
225g caster sugar
2 large eggs
½ tsp almond extract
150g butter, melted
250g cooking apples, peeled and cored
25g flaked almonds



INTRODUCTION

I’ve been doing this special and remarkably easy recipe for years. The apples can be windfalls or even shrivelled ones left in the fruit bowl. Serve warm with ice cream or crème fraîche as a dessert, or with coffee in the morning as one would a Danish pastry, again warm, dusted with icing sugar.

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Lightly grease a deep 20cm loose-bottomed cake tin.

Measure the flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, almond extract and melted butter into a bowl. Mix well until blended, then beat for a minute.

Spread half this mixture in the prepared tin. Thickly slice the apples and lay on top of the mixture in the tin, piling mostly towards the centre. Using 2 dessert spoons, roughly spoon the remaining mixture over the apples. This is an awkward thing to do, but just make sure that the mixture covers the centre well as it will spread out in the oven.

Sprinkle with the flaked almonds.

Bake in the preheated oven for 1¼-1½ hours until golden and coming away from the sides of the tin.

[Rosefriend]

Tig made it and it looks a dream..

[Rosefriend]

I'd like to do this but we don't have self-raising flour and there is baking powder in as well.

225g self-raising flour
1 level tsp baking powder

So...how much baking powder would I use Barbara and Tig please ?

RF

[Tig]

Rosefriend I decided to not add baking powder, I just used the s-r flour, so I would assume it would work fine with plain flour and the baking powder. I also replaced some of the flour with ground almonds, to add a bit more crunch and almond flavour. Not that I could taste it though!

[isabella]

Rosefriend and Tig - your cakes look so yummy you started me off- I have made an Almond and Apple cake ,too  Tig - I used a few drops of almond essence as well as ground almonds 

 

[Rosefriend]

ooo lovely isabella, wish we could smell it - any chance of the recipe perhaps please??

Rf

[isabella]

I just used a basic cake mix and added to it 

6 ozs SR flour
6 ozs softened butter
6ozs caster sugar
3eggs
2ozs ground almonds 
few drops of almond essence
flaked almonds for the top of the cake
1 very large apple - we have a Howgate Wonder tree in the garden so I used one of these

line the base of an 8"- 9 " cake tin with grease proof paper.

chuck the butter,sugar,flour,almonds,eggs and essence into a large bowl and mix well with a hand mixer.

stir in the apple which has been peeled ,cored and chopped small.



Put mixture into the tin, sprinkle the flaked almonds on top and bake for about 1hour at gas no.4 - check cake after 50 minutes to see if it is cooked.

[Tig]

I used almond essence in mine too Pam. I really added to the apple flavour when it was a day old, for some reason on the day I baked it I couldn't taste any almond at all though.

At least you didn't singe the edges of yours