Apple cake

Dessert · Netherlands classic.

Ingredients

• 4 Eggs
• 200g Sugar
• 200g Self-raising Flour
• 200g Melted Butter
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 3 Apples
• Pinch Salt
• Sprinkling Ground Sugar

Method

1. Preheat the oven — Preheat the oven to 180°C. (350˚F) Grease a cake pan and line it with baking paper.
2. Continue cooking — In a large bowl, break the four eggs with the sugar and beat until they have tripled in volume and become fluffy.
3. Mix together — Sift the self-rising baking flour and add it to your egg mixture.
4. Continue cooking — Fold this over, preserving as much air as possible.
5. Mix together — Add the melted (and slightly cooled) butter and mix until combined.
6. Add ingredients — Add cinnamon, pinch of salt and vanilla extract.
7. Add ingredients — Add the diced apple to the batter and gently fold them into the batter so that the apple pieces are evenly distributed.
8. Roll out — You can roll the apple pieces through some more cinnamon.
9. Continue cooking — Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
10. Continue cooking — Place the apple slices on top of the batter and press lightly.
11. Continue cooking — Sprinkle optionally with some almond shavings.
12. Preheat the oven — Bake the apple cake in the preheated oven for about 45-50 minutes, or until a wooden skewer comes out clean when inserted into the center of the cake.

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• Apple Potato Mash (Hete bliksem)
• Bitterballen (Dutch meatballs)
• Boterkoek (Dutch Butter Cake)
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Dutch poffertjes (mini pancakes)
• Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)