Nanou's apple and almond cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 120 g caster sugar
• 2 120 g butter
• 3 120 g flour
• 4 1 egg
• 5 80 g cream
• 6 150 g ground almonds
• 7 2 pinches fine (or table) salt
• 8 800 g apple
• 9 2 tablespoons rum
• 10 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• Total weight: 1,500 grams

Times:

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

Step by step recipe

1	Put 120 g caster sugar and 120 g butter in a mixer bowl and beat together.
2	Add 120 g flour, 1 egg, 80 g cream, 150 g ground almonds and 2 pinches fine (or table) salt. Beat until evenly mixed. Set aside.
3	Peel 800 g apples, then slice and put into a bowl. Pour over 2 tablespoons rum and 2 tablespoons lemon juice and mix well. Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).
4	Butter a loaf tin or mould and spread 1/3 of the cake batter in the bottom.
5	Add half the apples.
6	Top with another 1/3 of the batter.
7	Add the remaining apples.
8	Then the rest of the batter.
9	Keep any liquid left in the bowl from the apples (lemon juice + rum).
10	Bake for about 50 minutes to 1 hour.
11	As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, drizzle the lemon-rum liquid over the top.
12	Leave to cool in the tin before turning out.

Remarks

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

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