Applesauce Cake
Soft, spiced apple cakes — German Apple Cake, Apple Cake with Whiskey Cream Sauce, Swedish Apple Cake, Cinnamon applesauce cake — for easy weeknight baking.
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dessertGerman Apple Cake
Traditional German cake, it’s super easy to make but still looks fancy for the regular home baker.
Morgan GeyerIngredients
- 4 Apples
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 2 tsp Lemon juice
- 3 Large eggs
- 1 1/2 cup Cake Flour
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Milk
- garnish Powdered sugar
Instructions
- 1Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9 inch cake pan. Peel, core and cut small slices on the apples. Set aside.
- 2In a stand mixer beat butter then add sugar and beat again. Mix in vanilla and lemon juice. Add eggs, beating after each egg.
- 3In a medium size bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt together.
- 4Add half the dry ingredients to the wet then add 1 tbsp of milk and mix. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and then add the remaining 1tbsp of milk and mix.
- 5Pour batter into a greased 9 inch cake pan. Place the apples on top of the batter. Bake for 45 mins. Cool then garnish with powdered sugar.
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Applesauce and grated apples do the work here, keeping the crumb tender long after the pan cools. That's the kind of cake you can cut a square from on Tuesday and still enjoy on Friday.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the weather turns, when there's a bag of apples on the counter, or when they need something to carry to church or a school pitch-in without fussing over frosting.
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Quick Tips
- 1
Chop apples small
Cut peeled apples into 1/2-inch pieces so they soften fully and don't leave wet pockets in the crumb.
- 2
Don't overmix the batter
Stir just until the flour disappears, about 20 to 30 strokes by hand, or the cake turns tough.
- 3
Test at the center
Start checking 10 minutes before the time is up; a pick in the middle should come out with moist crumbs, not wet batter.
- 4
Cool before glazing
Let the cake sit 20 to 30 minutes so honey or caramel glaze sets on top instead of soaking straight in.
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