Applecake – it may be the cake with the most variations and the simpliest ingredients, but it still is one of my all-time-favorites.

As soon as fall has begun and the apples are ripe, I can’t stop myself from baking. Southtyrol, my home country, has a very big area of apple cultivation (more infos: Southtyrolean Apples).Because of this we have the possibility to get really fresh, delicious apples in the fall. This great possibility is something I appreciate very much. DSC_0473So, whenever I have a boxful of apples, I take out some of them for my cake (By the way: The sort „Golden Delicious“ is the one I like to eat most!).

Back to my applepie now: There surely are dozens of variations, but I always stay with my own standard-recipe taken out from the book „So backt Südtirol“ (a German book, actually a South-Tyrolean one!). I have tried many other recipes, but none of them was as good as mine was – so I stayed with it. The recipe is  simple, you don’t need many things and it is something that nearly everybody likes. A good applepie is a perfect cake for a birthday, another event or just for your family and yourself at home – it is nothing spectacular, of course, but I can tell you that this cake will also appeal to you with its flavour!

Recipe:

  • 125 grams butter
  • 125 grams sugar
  • 150 grams flour
  • 50 grams cornflour
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 package baking powder
  • some rum (about 2 tablespoons)
  • 2 tablespoons of milk
  • a pinch of salt
  1. First, mix the butter and the sugar. Then, add the eggs, the rum and the salt.
  2. In another bowl, mix and sieve the flour with the cornflour and the baking powder. Carefully fold the flour-mixture into the butter-mixture.
  3. Add the milk, fold it in, too.
  4. Put your dough into a cake tin (this time I used a rectangular baking tin).
  5. Peel 3-4 apples and divide them into quarters. Carve longish lines into the apple-quarters (you can also be creative and carve in other patterns, for example checkered patterns). Press the apple-quarters into the dough. Sprinkle some slivered almonds on the cake.
  6. Bake it for about 45 minutes at 160 ° Celcius.

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