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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 3 cakes, you will need:

1 360 ml caster sugar
2 372 ml butter
3 561.6 ml flour
4 3 eggs
5 240 ml cream
6 1 litre 21.5 ml ground almonds
7 6 pinches fine (or table) salt
8 2 litres 400 ml apple
9 6 tablespoons rum
10 6 tablespoons lemon juice

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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 360 ml caster sugar and 372 ml butter in a mixer bowl and beat together.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Add 561.6 ml flour, 3 eggs, 240 ml cream, 1 litre 21.5 ml ground almonds and 6 pinches fine (or table) salt.

Beat until evenly mixed.

Set aside.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Peel 2 litres 400 ml apples, then slice and put into a bowl. Pour over 6 tablespoons rum and 6 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
10,762 Kcal or 45,058 Kj	154 gr	1,004 gr	648 gr
538 %	59 %	95 %	98 %

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 3 cakes : 18.98 €
Per cake : 6.33 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Apple: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Baker's apple soles, Cochelin d'Evreux, Caramelised apple pie, Alsatian apple tart, Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Linzer torte, Calissons, Nanou's chocolate cake, Moist chocolate cake, Macarons (the original French macaroons) , ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Corsican tarts, Elsa's Comtoise galette, Moist chocolate cake, Far Normandy-Brittany, Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach Mornay, Caramelized pear custard tart, Tomatoes Provençal, Thin spinach and potato tart, Cantucci di Prato, ... All

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