Apple Cake
The everyday autumn cake of Bulgarian kitchens — a light oil-and-milk batter baked around a heap of cinnamon apples, with more slices fanned over the top, so every piece is more fruit than crumb. Tossing the apples in flour stops them sinking.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 tart apples (about 700 g)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp plain flour, for the apples
- 3 eggs
- 180 g sugar
- 120 ml sunflower oil
- 150 ml milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 280 g plain flour
- 10 g baking powder
- 10 g butter, for the tin
- 1 tbsp icing sugar, for dusting
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 3696 kcal · P 56.6g · C 537.4g · F 154g
Estimated from 13 of 13 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 180°C. Butter a 24 cm springform tin and line the base with baking paper.
- 2Peel, core and thinly slice the apples, toss them with the lemon juice and cinnamon, then with the tablespoon of flour.
- 3Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer for 5 minutes, until pale and thick enough to leave a trail.
- 4Beat in the oil in a thin stream, then the milk and vanilla.
- 5Sift the flour with the baking powder and fold it in with a spatula just until no dry flour shows — overmixing makes the cake tough.
- 6Fold two-thirds of the apples into the batter, pour it into the tin and arrange the rest of the slices over the top in overlapping circles.
- 7Bake for 50–55 minutes, until golden and a skewer in the centre comes out clean; if the apples darken too fast, cover with foil for the last 15 minutes.
- 8Leave in the tin for 15 minutes, release the ring and cool on a rack until barely warm, then dust with icing sugar.
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Questions and answers
How long does Apple Cake take to make?
About 75 minutes: 20 min prep and 55 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Apple Cake?
12 ingredients: tart apples, lemon juice, ground cinnamon, plain flour, eggs, sugar, sunflower oil, milk, vanilla extract, baking powder, butter, icing sugar.
How many servings does this Apple Cake recipe make?
10 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Apple Cake?
About 370 kcal, with 5.7 g protein, 53.7 g carbohydrate and 15.4 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Apple Cake recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Apple Cake?
Apple Cake comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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