Rustic apple cake
Slice into a soft torte de mele with real apple bites that can b put together with the simplicity of the pantry ingredients. This Italian-style rustic apple cake is an absolute baking beginner recipe, yet even in the hands of a professional turns out perfect each time.
Equipment
- cake mould 8 inch round.
- mixing bowls and spoons.
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour baking variety.
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp lemon zest
Wet ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
- 2 large egg or flax eggs
other ingredients
- 4 medium apples roughly chopped
- 1/2 small apple sliced thin
- 3 tbsp lemon juice.
Optional
- 2 tbsp pinenuts to add to the batter.
- 2 tbsp icing sugar for dusting.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Grease an 8-inch round cake pan and dust it with flour. Set it aside.
- Peel, core and chop the apples.
- Toss in with the lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Slice the apples for the top and coat them wih lemon juice too.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda together and set aside in a bowl.
- Gently rub the lemon zest into the dry flour to release the fragnace.
- Whisk the wet ingredients together till combined.
- Add the wet mix to the dry and combine gently.
- Add in the apple chopped and mix gently to spread evenly.
- Pour batter into the prepared cake tin.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 45 minutes.
- Check with a skewer for doneness. Sometimes the batter may need another 5 minutes in the cetre.
- Remove and cool on a wire rack for about 20 minutes.
- Unmould by loosening the sides with a knife.
- The torte de mele is now ready to be sliced.
Notes
This is a dense batter and swell by absorbing the moisture from the apples.
It also bakes slowly. If you feel the top is getting browned faster cover with an foil which has slits for steam to pass.
You can use any type of apples depending on your preference.
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