Fall is definitely the time I see many recipes for apple desserts. I often get inspired to try, one more time, an apple pie, an apple crisp or even an apple cobbler. Unfortunately, I have yet to be successful with any of the standard recipes! I have no trouble cutting up the apples, but for some reason my finished products are runny and the toppings are flavor-less. Bert will eat any of my attempts, but it takes the fun out of it when I am unsuccessful…time after time!
Have I got a great apple recipe for you! I found this on www.allrecipes.com called French Apple Cake. This “cake” was easy to put together and made a nice flavorful dessert. Of course, it called for dark rum, so what do you expect!
Most every recipe I download I usually retype and reformat the instructions to be more like the ones in my Joy of Cooking cookbook. When instructions are given in sentence form, I end up either missing an ingredient or combining things in the wrong order. Here is the way I revised the recipe:
The first time I made this cake, I used a round cake pan. It worked, but once the cake was turned out on to a plate it was hard to cover it to put it in the refrigerator. this time I used a Corning-ware casserole dish that had a snap on plastic lid. Worked much better!
If you follow the recipe above, here are some pictures of the process:
Cut up 3 large apples into very small pieces. Keep covered with water until ready to add to the cake.
Melt a stick of butter and mix into the sugars.
When butter and sugars are mixed, add the 2 eggs and flour mixture. Beat until smooth.
Add 3 Tbsp of rum (optional) and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
Drain and fold in the apples until evenly mixed and transfer the batter to a buttered pan or casserole. Dust the top with sugar.
Bake for 45 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and let cool in the pan about 30 minutes.
If you used the cake pan, flip it out onto a pan, remove the parchment paper and flip again.
Top with cinnamon and sugar (or powdered sugar).
Check it out! Apples were perfect, cake made it not runny! Success! Next time I’ll leave out the rum, but Bert liked it!
My favorite way to use apples!
Wow!! This sounds great and I’m going to make it for card club. I like the pictures you posted in the preparation part. Thanks for sharing!!
So glad you’ll give it a try! One of the easiest apple desserts I’ve ever made. Of course whipped cream or ice cream on top would make it really yummy!