Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake
A recipe from
cooking-ez.com November 7th 202121 K5
you will need:
Times:
Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
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45 min. | 1 hour 15 min. | 1 hour 60 min. |
Step by step recipe
- 1:
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. - 2: Add 100 g cream and mix again.
- 3: Sieve 170 g flour and 3 g baking powder into the mixture.
- 4: Mix again.
- 5: Add the melted butter...
- 6: ...and mix one last time.
Your "moelleux" cake batter is ready. - 7:
The caramelized apples
Peel 800 g apples, cut into segments and remove the core. - 8: Melt 30 g butter in a large frying pan on high heat. When good and hot, add 40 g caster sugar.
- 9: Add the apple pieces and wait until you see the bottom of the pan beginning to brown.
- 10: Stir the apples round...
- 11: ...turning until they are the required colour.
Take off the heat and leave to cool. - 12:
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). - 13: Arrange a layer of caramelized apples on top.
- 14: Top with another third of the batter.
- 15: Add a second layer of apples.
- 16: Finish with the final third of batter.
- 17: Bake for about 50 minutes.
- 18: Serve cold or warm.
Remarks
If you like, you can flambé the apples in Calvados or rum at the end of
stage 11.
For a hint of lemon flavour, add the zest of a lemon in
stage 6.
November 21th 2024.