Grated apple cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 4 apples
• 2 ½ lemon
• 3 50 g butter
• 4 50 g brown sugar
• 5 120 g butter
• 6 4 eggs
• 7 100 g caster sugar
• 8 150 g flour
• 9 6 g baking powder
• 10 3 pinches fine (or table) salt
• Total weight: 1,465 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
35 min.	60 min.	1 hour 35 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Peel 4 apples, cut into 4 and remove the core.
2	Grate and drizzle with ½ lemon juice.
3	In a frying pan over medium heat, melt 50 g butter, then add 50 g brown sugar and stir.
4	Add the grated apples...
5	...and cook for a few minutes, without browning. Leave to cool off the heat.
6	Melt 120 g butter and set aside. Preheat oven to 180°C (360°F).
7	Pour 4 eggs and then 100 g caster sugar into a bowl and whisk to combine.
8	Sift together over 150 g flour, 6 g baking powder and 3 pinches fine (or table) salt egg-sugar mixture.
9	Mix again thoroughly.
10	Add the warm melted butter.
11	Mix again.
12	Add the grated apples and mix one last time.
13	Pour into a buttered springform pan, here with a diameter of 22 cm (9 inches).
14	Bake at 180°C (360°F) for approximately 45 minutes.
15	Enjoy warm or cold.

Remarks

If you're in a hurry, you can add the raw grated apples, but it won't taste as good.
With the lemon juice, you can also add the zest to give the apples a little extra flavour.
You can add a dash of calvados, and even flambé them, at the end of cooking the grated apples.

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