The Apple Cake Collection

Ingredients: 1 Dry Cake Mix (or equivalent of dry ingredients only for a cake) 1 Can (425 grams) of Apples (or equivalent of home-cooked apples) 1 Stick (115 grams) of Butter Preparation: 1. Mix fruit in bottom of greased cake pan. 2. Spread dry cake mix on top (do not add any egg or other liquid ingredient that the cake mix calls for). 3. Put thin slices of butter all over the top. 4. Bake at 350 degrees Farenheit (180 Celsius) for half hour. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Janna via Postcrossing

The apple does not only give New York ("The Big Apple") its nickname. Constantinople and later Vienna were also called "The Golden Apple". Orchard meadows provide shelter for over 5,000 animal and plant species, making them one of the most biodiverse habitats. The oldest apple variety is the Borsdorfer Apple. He is mentioned in the early Middle Ages around 1100 in the writings of the Cistercians of the Abbey of Pforta. Friedrich Schiller was inspired to write by the smell of rotting apples. Goethe visiting him, on the other hand, did not share this inclination and had to save himself from the impending fainting of the "very fatal" smell into the fresh air. Apples ripen up to 10 times faster at room temperature. Optimal storage conditions would be a temperature of about 3 ° C at high humidity.

Ingredients: Dough: 300 g flour 100 g butter 6 g baking powder 100 g sugar 1.5 egg 2.5 tbsp milk Filling: 3-5 apples cinnamon clove Preparation: 1. After you mixed the ingredients of the dough with your hands you should take one half of it. 2. You roll it out with a rolling pin and place it in the baking dish. 3. As for the filling you will need approximately 3-5 apples, just to make a 3 cm thick layer upon the dough layer. You grate the apples and season it with cinnamon and clove. 4. You place the other part of the dough onto the apple layer, make some holes in it with a fork, and bake it in a preheated oven until it's golden brown. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Csenge via Postcrossing

Ingredients: 750 g sour apples 2 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp powdered sugar 40 g sliced almonds 200 g soft butter 200 g sugar 1 packet vanilla sugar 4 eggs 200 g flour 1 tsp baking soda Butter for the mold Preparation: 1. Peel apples, quarter them, remove core. Cut apple quarters in a fan shape but don't cut through. Drizzle with lemon juice. 2. Melt powdered sugar without fat, mix in almonds, allow to cool. 3. Preheat oven to 175 ° C top / bottom heat. 4. Grease Springform (26 cm Ø). 5. Beat butter with sugar and vanilla sugar until foamy. 6. Stir in eggs one at a time. 7. Stir in flour and baking powder. 8. Fill the dough into the mold. Arrange apple quarters in a wreath on it. Sprinkle almonds in the spaces between them. 9. Bake in preheated oven for about 45 minutes. 10. Cooled slightly, release from the mold. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Melanie via Postcrossing