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Apple and Almond Cake

Category:Recipes using wheat flourCategory:Recipes using wheat flourCategory:Recipes using wheat flourCategory:Recipes using wheat flourCategory:Recipes using wheat flourCategory:Recipes using wheat flour | Desserts Apple and almond cake is delicious warm or cold as a dessert or "stand-alone" cake, and this simple and reliable recipe is tried and tested.

Source and licence

"Apple and Almond Cake" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Apple_and_Almond_Cake, revision 4523677), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Apple_and_Almond_Cake&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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What was changed: Reformatted by FoodByNation from the wiki page: ingredients and steps extracted, links and templates removed, diet notes detected from the ingredients. This adaptation is also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Ingredients

  • 5 ounces (145 g) butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 8 ounces (230 g) caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon almond essence
  • 8 ounces (230 g) self-raising flour
  • 1½ level teaspoons baking powder
  • approx. ¾ pounds (330 g) peeled cooking apples (e.g. Bramleys)
  • icing sugar to dredge

Method

  1. Grease a 9-inch (23 cm) loose-bottomed spring-form cake tin.
  2. Gently melt the butter in a pan, then pour into a large bowl.
  3. Add the eggs, sugar, and almond essence and stir well until mixed. Then add the flour and baking powder. Stir well—at this point, it should be a stiff mixture.
  4. Spread just under two-thirds of the mixture into the cake tin.
  5. Immediately afterwards, peel, core and slice the apples and arrange on top of the mixture in the tin. Cover these with the remainder of the cake mixture. At this stage, the cake may appear "untidy", but the cooking process eliminates most unevenness or gaps in the surface.
  6. Bake for 1¼ to 1½ hours in a preheated oven at 325 °F (160 °C / Gas Mark 3)
  7. Once cooked, allow to cool slightly in the tin. Loosen the sides of the cake with a knife and gently push the cake out onto a plate. Cool completely.
  8. Lightly dust the top of the cake with sieved icing sugar once cool. Serve warm or cold, with cream for best results.