Moist Apple Cake
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Moist Apple Cake
Manuela’s mother has offered lots of inspiration and recipes for our cooking classes in Tuscany. This is one of her recipes, now handed down to her children and grandchildren. Thanks Licia!
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 40
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 12
Ingredients
- 5 apples
- Zest of 1/2 a lemon, finely grated
- 170 g (3/4 cup) sugar
- Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla pod or a few drops of good vanilla essence
- 5 eggs
- 300g (2 1/2 cups) plain flour
- 150 g (2/3 cup) butter
- Small packet (17 g) natural baking powder. Please read this article
- 50 g (1/3 cup) pine nuts, toasted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/340°F. Put the butter into a pot and melt in the oven, taking care that it doesn’t burn.
- Peel the apples and cut them into small pieces. Add the lemon zest and a third of the sugar. Mix together and set aside.
- Break the eggs into a large bowl. Add the remaining sugar and beat together well.
- Add the melted butter, the vanilla, the flour and the natural baking powder, mixing well.
- Add the apples.
- Put the mixture in a 12 inch/30 cm cake tin, sprinkle the toasted pine nuts on top and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Serve with whipped cream, custard or vanilla ice cream.
