The Apple Cake Collection

1. Cooking is an Art, Baking is a Science. 2. Measuring matters. 3. Quality ingredients. 4. Ingredient temperature. 5. Mood matters. 6. Parchment paper is your BFF. 7.  Invest in a good mixer. 8. Scrape your bowl. 9. Invest in good spatulas. 10. Bake in the centre.

Ingredients: (for a cake 24 cm in diameters) 500 g apples 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup flower 1 tsp vanilla sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tbsp poppy seeds powdered sugar Preparation: 1. Remove seeds and cut apples into thin slices, but do not peel them. 2. Grease the walls of a baking tray with butter and lay baking paper into the bottom. 3. Spread the sliced apples on the baking tray and sprinkle them with cinnamon. 4. Prepare the dough for the cake. Whisk the eggs well together with regular and vanilla sugar until the mixture becomes white, then pour in the flour and mix until a consistent dough is formed. 5. Pour the dough over the apples in the baking tray and sprinkle poppy seeds on top. 6. Bake in the oven at 180 °C for about 40 minutes until the cake rises and bakes. 7. To check whether the cake is properly baked, pierce it with a wooden stick. if the stick comes out dry, the cake is baked. 8. Leave the baked cake to cool off in its tray for while. Once it

Ingredients: 125 g butter 125 g sugar 1 package vanilla sugar 2 eggs 125 g flour 2 tbsp cocoa powder 1/2 package backing powder 2 apples powdered sugar for dusting Preparation: 1. Mix everything except apples and powdered sugar for the dough. 2. Peel apples, core them and slice into small pieces. 3. Mix apple pieces with dough. 4. Fill the dough into a container fit for the microwave (round or box-shaped). 5. Bake for 12 minutes at 600 watt. 6. Dust with powdered sugar before serving. Source of Recipe: Chefkoch.de

Ingredients: Dough: 180 g flour 80 g ground hazelnuts 70 g sugar 70 g brown sugar (raw cane sugar) 1/2 package baking powder 1 package vanilla sugar 80 g butter (room temperature) Filling: ca. 400 g applesauce 1 tbsp mulled wine sugar or cinnamon sugar ca. 2 tbsp chopped almonds ca. 40 g marzipan Preparation: 1. Mix the ingredients for the dough with a spoon until you have a crumbly dough. 2. Spread 2/3 of the dough in a greased springform, press lightly and form a small rim (1-2 cm). 3. Spread the applesauce on the dough and sprinkle with mulled wine sugar. 4. Mix the rest of the dough with almonds and marzipan and spread loosely over the applesauce layer. 5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 °C (circulating air) for ca. 30-35 minutes, let cool in the form after baking. 6. Can be served lukewarm with vanilla ice cream. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Barbara via Postcrossing.

Hi all! I hope you had a great start into the new year and a lovely Christmas time before that. As you've probably noticed, I've made a bit of a blogging break over the holidays and haven't posted new recipes. The other reason for not posting new recipes is that I don't have many recipes left that I haven't posted. I hope you'll be able to send me some new recipes, not only for cakes but also for cookies and other sweet recipes with apples. I would really appreciate your help!