A light, moist, delicious tea cake that isn’t sickly sweet or too decadent. But it can easily be elevated to a “dessert” by pairing with some ice-cream.
I’ve become kind of obsessed with tea cakes lately. They’re light, moist and so simple to make. Today’s experiment was a German Apple Cake. Apple cakes are perfect for, well, any time of the day, really! 😋🍎 Light and delicious. This recipe wasn’t sickly sweet so could be easily had as a light accompaniment with tea/coffee, or as a dessert if paired with ice cream.
German Apple Cake
Course: DessertDifficulty: Medium4
servings30
minutes45
minutes1
hour15
minutesIngredients
1½ cups (225gm) all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ cup butter
¾ cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
¼ tsp salt
½ cup whole milk / buttermilk
½ cup flaked almonds
2 cups apples (3 medium)
1 tsp cinnamon powder
3 tbsp raw sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 170C.
- Peel, core and thinly slice the apples using a mandoline.
- Sprinkle cinnamon powder on the apples and toss to coat evenly. Set aside.
- Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt). Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, use an electric beater to beat the butter (room temperature) and sugar till fluffy.
- Add vanilla extract and eggs. Mix till combined.
- Add milk and mix for a few seconds.
- Add the flour mixture a few tablespoons at a time and gently fold using a spatula.
- Line a 9″ round baking pan with baking paper.
- Spread half the batter into the pan and level with a spatula.
- Place half the apple slices on the batter.
- Pour over the remaining batter. Level with spatula.
- Place the remaining apple slices.
- Sprinkle with 3 tbsp raw sugar and flaked almonds.
- Bake for 45 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean).
- Take out of the oven and let it cool (in the pan) for 15-20 minutes.
- Serve warm with ice-cream.
Notes
- I like to use semi-tart apples like Pink Lady.
- You can add a few tablespoons of brown sugar to the apples slices if you like your cake to be sweet-sweet.
- Make sure all your ingredients are at room temperature (eggs, milk, butter).
- This recipe has been adapted from Bake Play Smile.
