Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake
The apples in this recipe are caramelized in a mixture of butter and sugar, then cooled before being added to the "moelleux" batter (which makes a soft, moist cake). The result is a delicious cake combining apple and caramel flavours.
24 K 5/5 (3 reviews)
1 hour 60 min.
Easy
10 IngredientsLast modified on: November 7th 2021
You will need:
- 1
70 g butter - 2
150 g egg ( How to... ) - 3
190 g caster sugar - 4
10 g vanilla sugar - 5
100 g cream - 6
170 g flour - 7
3 g baking powder - 8
800 g apple - 9 30 g butter
- 10 40 g caster sugar
- Total weight: 1,565 grams
Change measures:
Times for this recipe
Preparation: 45 min.
Cooking: 1 hour 15 min.
All in all: 1 hour 60 min.
To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: 17:35.Change end time
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
The "moelleux" cake batter
Melt 70 g butter on low heat then set aside.Put 150 g egg, 190 g caster sugar and 10 g vanilla sugar into a mixing bowl and mix with a whisk.
Stage 2 - 2 min.
Add 100 g cream and mix again.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Sieve 170 g flour and 3 g baking powder into the mixture.
Stage 4 - 1 min.
Mix again.
Stage 5 - 2 min.
Add the melted butter...
Stage 6 - 1 min.
...and mix one last time.
Your "moelleux" cake batter is ready.
Your "moelleux" cake batter is ready.
Stage 7 - 15 min.
The caramelized apples
Peel 800 g apples, cut into segments and remove the core.Stage 8 - 2 min.
Melt 30 g butter in a large frying pan on high heat. When good and hot, add 40 g caster sugar.
Stage 9 - 10 min.
Add the apple pieces and wait until you see the bottom of the pan beginning to brown.
Stage 10
Stir the apples round...
Stage 11 - 10 min.
...turning until they are the required colour.
Take off the heat and leave to cool.
Take off the heat and leave to cool.
Stage 12 - 3 min.
Assembling the cake
Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C) .Butter a large loaf tin (or 2 smaller ones like in the photo). Spread a first layer in the tin with a third of the cake batter (a forcing bag is ideal for this, but not essential).
Stage 13 - 4 min.
Arrange a layer of caramelized apples on top.
Stage 14 - 3 min.
Top with another third of the batter.
Stage 15 - 4 min.
Add a second layer of apples.
Stage 16 - 3 min.
Finish with the final third of batter.
Stage 17 - 50 min.
Bake for about 50 minutes.
Stage 18
Serve cold or warm.
Keeping: 1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
| Proteins (gr) | Carbohydrates (gr) | Fats (gr) | Energy value (in k-calories) | Energy value (in k-joules) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole recipe | 40 RDI=10 % | 500 RDI=40 % | 130 RDI=20 % | 3,220 RDI=120 % | 13,500 RDI: 120 % |
| Per 100 g | 2 RDI=1 % | 30 RDI=2 % | 8 RDI=1 % | 210 RDI=8 % | 860 RDI: 8 % |
How much will it cost?
- For : 3.40 €
Change currency: 
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Apple
Like these other recipes: Toffee apple upside-down cake, Oatmeal and apple cookies, Tyrolean apple crumble, Little apple and verbena tarts, Apple-almond shortbread tart, ... See them all 55
Caster sugar
Like these other recipes: Little apple and verbena tarts, French Family Cake, Citrus crunch, Buckwheat almond biscuits, Pistachio confectioner's custard, ... See them all 356
Flour
Like these other recipes: Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Gingerbread, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Pistachio shortbread biscuits, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, ... See them all 199
Egg
Like these other recipes: Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Génoise (Genoa sponge), Gâteau Nantais, Amandier (gluten-free almond cake), Oaty walnut cake , ... See them all 232
Other recipes you may also like
Soft fruits in sabayon
This recipe is made by briefly cooking an assortment of soft fruits (raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, currants...) with a little sugar to glaze them. They are served in a small dish, covered with a delicious sabayon which can be lightly "burned" on surface.February 21th 2011266 K3.9 50 min.
How to prevent butter burning during cooking
Butter, which is excellent for fixing flavours in a recipe, burns if the temperature is too high. It darkens and produces unpleasant small black specks (by the way, note that the famous recipe "raie au beurre noir", ray in black butter, is a kind of sacrilege!).February 21th 2011138 K 24.1 3 min.
Muffin dough
This dough can be used to make this delicious and classic of the English cooking: muffins. It can be sweet, in different flavours, with fruit, but also savoury in other recipes.February 6th 2013563 K5 25 min.
Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
Puff pastry is an incredible assembly of thin layers of butter enclosed in thin layers of dough. After cooking this give a succession of thin crisp pastry leaves that produce exceptional desserts or pies. It's a jewel of French patisserie. Making your own puff pastry is not very difficult, it's just...January 19th 2011451 K 63.3 2 hours 45 min.
News list of cooking-ez.com
Sign up to receive the latest recipes (next batch due to be sent on 2025-04-06)
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Post a comment or question
Follow this recipe
If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Alternatively: you can subscribe to the mailing list of cooling-ez.com , you will receive a e-mail for each new recipe published on the site.