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Nanou's apple and almond cake

Name: Nanou's apple and almond cake
Prep time: 1 h 14 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 2 h 14 min
Yield: 1 cake
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 120 g caster sugar; 120 g butter; 120 g flour; 1 egg; 80 g cream; 150 g ground almonds; 2 pinches fine (or table) salt; 800 g apple; 2 tablespoons rum; 2 tablespoons lemon juice

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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Duration

2 hours 15 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: November 14^th 2021

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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 for this recipe

Preparation

45 min.

Resting

30 min.

Cooking

1 hour

All in all

2 hours 15 min.

Preparation 45 min.

Resting 30 min.

Cooking 1 hour

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Put 120 g caster sugar and 120 g butter in a mixer bowl and beat together.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 5 min.

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.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 15 min.

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).

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

Nanou's apple and almond cake : Stage 10

Bake for about 50 minutes to 1 hour.

Stage 11 - ⌛ 2 min.

Nanou's apple and almond cake : Stage 11

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

Stage 12 - ⌛ 30 min.

Nanou's apple and almond cake : Stage 12

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

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	3 g RDI=5 %	22 g RDI=8 %	14 g RDI=20 %	239 kcal RDI=12 %	1,001 kJ RDI=12 %
Whole recipe	51 g RDI=79 %	334 g RDI=126 %	216 g RDI=296 %	3,587 kcal RDI=179 %	15,020 kJ RDI=179 %