Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
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.

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