The Apple Cake Collection

Ingredients: 125 g soft butter 250 g sugar or less, depending on the sweetness of the apples 3 egg yolks 1 pinch of salt 1 kg quark 75 g semolina 1 package vanilla sauce powder 1 coated tsp baking powder 500 - 750 g apples 50 g of sultanas 3 egg whites Preparation: 1. Mix all ingredients (except apples, sultanas and egg whites) with a whisk into a smooth dough. 2. Wash the apples, peel them, cut into quarters, remove the core, cut into fine leaves and add together with the sultanas to the dough. 3. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold in gently. 4. Grease Springform. 5. Pour in the dough, spread a little higher towards the middle and bake. 6. Bake at 180 -190 °C for 55 -60 minutes at the lower insertion strip. 7. Let rest at 0 °C for 5 - 10 minutes. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Gudrun via Postcrossing (Das blaue Kochbuch)

Ingredients: For the apple base: 550 g cooking apples, weight when peeled, cored and sliced 3 tbsp water 50 g caster or soft brown sugar ½-1 tsp mixed spice For the crumble topping: 150 g rolled oats 85 g plain flour 85 g margarine 115 g soft brown sugar Preparation: 1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C/gas mark 4. 2. Put the apples with the water, sugar and spice into a pie dish, cover and bake for 15 minutes. 3. Mix the rolled oats with the flour, melt the margarine in a pan and add the oat mixture and the sugar. 4. Mix well, then spread evenly over the apples. 5. Bake for a further 30 minutes until the topping is crisp and brown. Serve with custard. Source of Recipe: By Marguerite Patten  (Sent in by John via Postcrossing)

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