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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 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

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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 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

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
3,587 Kcal or 15,018 Kj	51 gr	335 gr	216 gr
179 %	20 %	32 %	33 %

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 1 cake : 5.42 £

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Apple: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Apple-almond shortbread tart, Oatmeal and apple cookies, Windfall apple jelly, Baked apples from St Aubin le Vertueux, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Almonds pyramids, Linzer torte, Caribbean upside-down cake, Checkerboard biscuits, Apricot blancmange, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio confectioner's custard, Breton apple and rhubarb tart , Cannelés, Apple crisps, Croissant dough apples, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little Christmas biscuits, Cookies of the Camisards, Langoustine gratin, Hazelnut and orange cake, Flamiche, ... All

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