The Apple Cake Collection

Ingredients: Dough: 250 g flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 150 g cold butter 6 tbsp cold water Filling: 4 large green apples 1 1/2 tbsp wheat flour 100 g sugar pinch of salt 1 tbsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 packet vanilla sugar grated lemon peel butter flakes Preparation: 1. Mix together flour with salt, sugar and cinnamon. 2. Cut cold butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture with a knife till it resembles a crumble texture. 3. Add cold water and knead to a dough. 4. Place in the fridge for one hour. 5. Peel and core green apples and cut into thin slices and then mix with wheat flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, ground nutmeg, lemon juice and vanilla sugar into a bowl, then add some grated lemon peel and mix well. 6. Roll out 2/3 of the dough and lay onto a greased pie-dish (23 cm) and gently push up the sides to form the edge. 7. Add apple mixture. 8. Roll out the rest of the dough, cut out some star shapes and place over the apples. 9. F

Ingredients: 500 g apples 375 g butter 1/2 package baking powder 1/2 tsp cinnamon 250 g butter pinch of salt 250 g sugar 4 eggs 50 g whipping cream powdered sugar Preparation: 1. Peel, quarter and core apples. Cut into slices. 2. Mix flour, baking powder and cinnamon. 3. Whisk butter, salt and sugar until creamy. 4. Add eggs, flour mix and cream. 5. Mix apples in.  6. Pour dough into a greased form. 7. Bake in preheated oven (150° C circulating air) 25 min. 8. Take out and dust with powdered sugar. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Birgit via Postcrossing

Ingredients: 120 g flour 30 g whole wheat flour 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp baking soda 100 g tofu (silk) 60 g soy milk 50 g canola oil 30 g beet sugar 2 tsp vinegar pinch of salt 20 g raisins 1/2 apple (steamed) Preparation: 1. Mix tofu, soy milk, canola oil, sugar, vinegar and salt in a bowl. 2. Add flour, whole wheat flour, cinnamon and baking soda and mix roughly. 3. Add raisins. 4. Fill dough into muffin forms. 5. Slice apple and put slices on top of the dough. 6. Preheat oven to 170°C and bake 25 min. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Yumie via Postcrossing

Ingredients: 250 g shortcrust 1000 g apples 150 g sugar 1 coffee spoon cinnamon 3 soup spoons milk 15 cl cream (crème fraiche) 2 eggs powdered sugar vanilla sugar cinnamon Preparation: 1. Roll out dough, butter a springform and line with dough (including a small edge). 2. Peel apples, quarter, core and cut evenly lengthways to reduce baking time. 3. Spread the apples circular on the dough and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. 4. Bake for 25 min in a very hot oven. 5. When the apples are baked, top with egg mass, cream and vanilla sugar. 6. Bake for 20 min. 7. Let the cake cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Eat lukewarm or cold. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Günther via Postcrossing

Ingredients: 4 big apples (Boskoop) 30 g butter + some more 2 tbsp sultanas 2 tbsp rum 40 g hazelnuts 2 tbsp honey 1 level tsp cinnamon 2 egg yolks 2 tbsp sugar Mark of a vanilla pod 1 tbsp food starch 1/4 l milk Preparation:  1. Wash apples, remove core and put into a form greased with butter. 2. Soak sultanas in rum for 10 minutes. 3. Roast hazelnuts and chop roughly. 4. Mix sultanas and nuts with honey and cinnamon and fill into apples, distribute the rest of the filling around the apples. 5. Put flakes of butter on top, cover the form with aluminium foil and bake in the oven for 30 min at 180°C. 6. For the sauce mix egg yolks, sugar and mark of a vanilla pod in a pot and beat with the hand mixer until creamy. 7. Add food starch while stirring. 8. Heat milk in a pot and add egg mixture at low heat into the milk, stirring constantly, until creamy. 9. Pour sauce over apples and enjoy. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Yvonne via Postcrossing