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Nanou's apple and almond cake

Apples and almonds are the dominant flavours in this old family cake recipe, but these are joined by delightful notes of lemon and rum.

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Last modified on: November 14^th 2021

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For 2 cakes, you will need:

1 1 cup caster sugar
2 1 cup butter
3 1 ²⁄₃ cup flour
4 2 eggs
5 ¾ cup cream
6 3 cups ground almonds
7 4 pinches fine (or table) salt
8 6 ¾ cups apple
9 4 tablespoons rum
10 4 tablespoons lemon juice

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
44 min.	30 min.	1 hour	2 hours 14 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put 1 cup caster sugar and 1 cup butter in a mixer bowl and beat together.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Add 1 ²⁄₃ cup flour, 2 eggs, ¾ cup cream, 3 cups ground almonds and 4 pinches fine (or table) salt.

Beat until evenly mixed.

Set aside.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Peel 6 ¾ cups apples, then slice and put into a bowl. Pour over 4 tablespoons rum and 4 tablespoons lemon juice and mix well.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Butter a loaf tin or mould and spread 1/3 of the cake batter in the bottom.

Stage 5 - 4 min.

Add half the apples.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Top with another 1/3 of the batter.

Stage 7 - 4 min.

Add the remaining apples.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Then the rest of the batter.

Stage 9

Keep any liquid left in the bowl from the apples (lemon juice + rum).

Stage 10 - 1 hour

Bake for about 50 minutes to 1 hour.

Stage 11 - 2 min.

As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, drizzle the lemon-rum liquid over the top.

Stage 12 - 30 min.

Leave to cool in the tin before turning out.

Remarks

You can easily adapt this recipe to make a pear version.

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Source

Home made, based on a recipe by Nanou's mother, Giselle.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
7,175 Kcal or 30,040 Kj	103 gr	669 gr	432 gr
359 %	40 %	63 %	66 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
239 Kcal or 1,001 Kj	3 gr	22 gr	14 gr
12 %	1 %	2 %	2 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,587 Kcal or 15,018 Kj	51 gr	335 gr	216 gr
179 %	20 %	32 %	33 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten, Egg, Nuts

How much will it cost?

For 2 cakes : 12.66 €
Per cake : 6.33 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Apple: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Lemon and grated apple tart, Baker's apple soles, Apple semelles (flat apple tarts), Tatin apples with mascarpone cream, Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Almonds pyramids, Santiago Cake, Croute à thé, Beurre d'escargot, Armagnac marzipan, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Strawberry and rhubarb crumble, Caribbean upside-down cake, Kugelhof for Nanou, Milk rolls, Coconut tuiles, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Clafoutis batter, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Apple and almond gratin, Clementine Creamy, Cantucci di Prato, ... All

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