Apple cake does not tolerate surplus in the description, so without long rantings, let's move on to the recipes themselves.
Apple Cake Recipe
How to prepare a French apple cake - tart-taten , we already said. The recipe described below also came to us from Europe and has a very interesting taste.
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- flour - 4 items;
- soda - 2 teaspoons;
- powder for baking - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
- ground cloves - 1/2 tsp;
- butter - 1 1/2 items;
- sugar - 2 1/2 items;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- apple puree - 4 items;
- peanuts - 1 handful.
For caramel:
- sugar - 1 1/2 items;
- sugar syrup - 1/4;
- butter - 1/2 tbsp .;
- cream - 1 1/2 tbsp.
For cream:
- sugar - 1 1/2 items;
- flour - 1/3 of a century;
- milk - 1 1/2 items;
- cream - 1/3 of a century;
- butter - 1 1/2 items;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Before you cook an apple cake, heat the oven to 180 degrees. 3 forms with a diameter of 20 cm lubricate with oil and cover with parchment.
Flour sift with soda and baking powder, add salt, cinnamon and cloves. Thoroughly mix.
In another container, beat the soft butter and sugar into a lush white mass. We add to the egg one egg at a time, stirring constantly. Now to the oil mass, gradually pour a mixture of dry ingredients and knead the dough. In the dough, add the apple sauce and whisk everything until smooth. Divide the dough into 3 forms and put in the oven for 40-45 minutes. Ready cakes for cake with apple sauce should cool down for 20 minutes.
In the meantime, we are preparing caramel. In the saucepan pour sugar and pour in syrup with 1/2 cup of water. We are waiting for the sugar crystals to dissolve, after which we intensify the fire and let the caramels be poured, without stirring, until it becomes golden in color. We remove caramel from the fire, add butter and milk with constant whipping.
Now make the cream. Sugar is mixed with flour and put the mixture on the fire. Pour in the milk, cream and with constant stirring, bring the mixture to a boil. Boil the cream on low heat for 10-15 minutes, then pour it into a cold bowl. We pour to the cream 1/3 cup of syrup, which we prepared earlier and let it cool down. To the cooled mass gradually add soft butter and vanilla, along by whipping the cream with a mixer.
Now we smear the cooled skins with cream inside and out, and pour the top of the cake with caramel. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with ground peanuts.
Carrot and apple cake
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 items;
- sugar - 1 1/2 items;
- soda - 2 1/4 tsp spoon;
- powder for baking - 1 1/2 tsp.
- cinnamon - 1 1/2 tsp.
- ground cloves, nutmeg - 1/4 tsp;
- cocoa powder - 2 tsp;
- vegetable oil - 1 item;
- salt - 1/4 tsp.
- eggs - 4 pcs. + 1 yolk;
- carrots - 3 pieces;
- apples - 2 pieces;
- walnut - 1 item;
- apple jam - half a century;
- cream cheese 300 g;
- butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.
Preparation
Oven warm up to 180 degrees. Lubricate 3 forms for baking to bake cakes with oil and cover with parchment.
In one bowl, combine the flour, sugar, soda, powder for baking, all spices and cocoa. We add butter and eggs, kneading a thick dough.
We put the cakes in the oven for 35-40 minutes. By the way, the cakes for apple cake can be baked in a multivark. To do this, each portion of the test is poured into a greased cup of the multivark and cooked in the "Baking" mode for 40-45 minutes. Ready cakes leave to cool for 20 minutes.
Cream cheese with whipped sugar and vanilla extract until a smooth smooth cream.
We cool off the cakes first with a layer of jam, and then with cream. From the outside, the cake is also greased with cream. Sprinkle the finished cake with apple jam with the remains of walnuts.