Nanou's apple and almond cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
45 min.	30 min.	1 hour	2 hours 15 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Put 120 g caster sugar and 120 g butter in a mixer bowl and beat together.
• 2: 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.
• 3: 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).
• 4: Butter a loaf tin or mould and spread 1/3 of the cake batter in the bottom.
• 5: Add half the apples.
• 6: Top with another 1/3 of the batter.
• 7: Add the remaining apples.
• 8: Then the rest of the batter.
• 9: Keep any liquid left in the bowl from the apples (lemon juice + rum).
• 10: Bake for about 50 minutes to 1 hour.
• 11: As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, drizzle the lemon-rum liquid over the top.
• 12: Leave to cool in the tin before turning out.

Remarks

You can easily adapt this recipe to make a pear version.

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