Rustic Italian apple cake
Recipe from Elena Faita
Ingredients
6 Portions
700 g Honey Crisp apples (peeled, cored with Cuisipro apple corer and sliced ¼” thick
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
100 g butter at room temperature
2 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
200 g sugar
200 ml milk
200 g flour
1 pinch salt
1 envelope of chemical yeast Cucina della nonna
Powdered sugar
Method
In a bowl, add apples to zest and lemon juice (to stop apples from browning), cover and put in fridge for 4 hours.
Preheat oven at 350°F
With the help of a hand mixer, mix butter, eggs, sugar, cinnamon and milk. The mixture will be very liquid.
In another bowl, mix dry ingredients together (flour, yeast and salt).
Add mixture of dry ingredients to the liquid mixture and mix well.
Add apples and mix well again.
Grease and flour a 24cm (9’’) OXO cake mold then pour in cake batter and let bake for 1 hour. Once the cake has cooled, sprinkle powdered sugar on top.
Delicious for breakfast, in the lunch box for big and small and makes a succulent dessert!
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