Sunday, March 9, 2014

Irish Apple Cake


  If you want your entire house to smell amazing, this one's for you. As an extra bonus, you can stuff this delicious cake in your gut at the same time. Does it get any better?
  This was another Pinterest discovery, and it's great. Plenty easy and quick to put together, and you get a nice, not-too-sweet cake that would probably be good at any time of the day. Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

3 cups cake flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
3/4 cup sugar
3-4 Granny Smith apples
2 large eggs
1/4 cup milk
2 tbsp granulated sugar for topping

Instructions:

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2.Spray 8 or 9" round baking pan with cooking spray (I like Bakers Joy for cakes)
3.(I don't recommend any larger pan as the cake will be too thin)
4.Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cloves, nutmeg & cinnamon in large bowl.
5.Using pastry cutter- cut butter into dry mixture until it resembles fine bread crumbs
6.Add sugar & mix through
7.Peel & slice apples into thin wedges & toss in flour mixture - coating apples
8.In a separate small bowl - beat eggs & milk - add to apple mixture
9.Toss & stir well to fully moisten flour. Should result in a very sticky dough
10.Transfer to prepared pan
11.Flatten top of surface & sprinkle with remaining sugar
12.Bake 45-55 minutes or until toothpick test is clean
13.Cool on wire rack

  Special thanks goes out to the fine folks over at Kleinworth & Co. who posted the original recipe here.



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