An apple a day keeps the doctor away! Ok, that’s true if you eat the apple alone, but using apples is a good way to make a dessert healthier and also more delicious. Fruits are commonly used to bake a cake but apple is absolutely my favorite. I like its texture when you bake the apples. They give the cake a juicy and soft texture. I like the contrast between the dryness of the cake and wet feeling of the apple in my mouth, and that was the case in this quick cinnamon apple cake recipe.
Apples in a cake always remind me of my childhood when my mother baked apple cakes almost once every week. The smell and the taste of those cakes are still very fresh for me. We usually had apple cakes at the weekends when all family members were at home.
Of course you can substitute apple with another sweet fruit, but nothing proves as delicious as apple. I used sweet golden apples and I’m really satisfied with the result. If you like it sour, you can use apples with a kind of citric flavor; or if you like it sweeter, you can try a sweeter apple.
Another good point about apples is how they look after you bake the cinnamon apple cake. The cuts on the outer part of the apples and their color make another contrast with the golden brown color of the cake. Since I used a round pan, I had triangular slices. If you use a square or rectangular pan, you can have one piece of apple for each square slice.
No matter what shape and how big the slices are, you will definitely enjoy this fast apple cake. If you want to spend a happy winter weekend at home, and especially if you have kids who often end up in the kitchen asking for something to eat, you should give it a try!
Serves 8
This low fat quick apple cake is really fluffy and scrumptious. A vintage recipe to remember your childhood.
1 hrPrep Time
1 hrTotal Time
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Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ½ tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tbsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 100 gr (3 ½ Oz) all purpose margarine
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 4 golden apples
- 1 tsp. powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp. bread crumbs
Instructions
- Grease the pie pan (28 cm diameter) with some margarine and sprinkle some bread crumbs
- Add the vanilla and margarine (in solid state at room temperature) into sugar Mix using a mixer for 2 minutes.
- Break the eggs, mix for another two minutes.
- Add the milk and mix for two more minutes
- Add the flour, cinnamon and baking powder (all sifted) and mix for a final two minutes.
- Spread the mixture into the pie pan (it will be a little hard, so be careful when you spread the dough, try to spread it evenly)
- Peel the apples, cut each into 4 top to bottom quarters
- Make horizontal cuts to the outer part of the apples
- Place the apples on the mixture
- Put in cold oven, adjust to 350F degrees, bake for 40 minutes
- With a sifter, pour the powdered sugar on your pie
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