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Buttery Apple Cake

Ingredients: 500 g apples 130 g butter 1 ½ dl wheat flour ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 2 eggs 1 yolk 3 dl sugar 1 tsp vanilla sugar Preparation: 1. Grease and flour a pie form (diameter about 20 cm) or bake with baking paper. 2. Peel and cut apples into slices of half a centimetre. 3. Heat the butter in a frying pan at mild heat. Take aside 1 dl butter. Fry the apples in the rest of the butter with mild heat for 10 minutes until the slices soften. 4. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt. 5. Whisk eggs, yolk and sugars into a flaky foam with an electric mixer. 6. Mix the dry ingredients and 1 dl of butter lightly into the egg-sugar foam. 7. Finally add the apple cuttings (also the butter with apple cuttings fried) into the dough. Pour the dough into the form. 8. Bake the cake at the bottom of a 180 °C oven for about 40 minutes. 9. Let the apple cake cool for at least two hours before serving or let it cool overnight in the refrigerator. 10. Sift icing sugar on th

Finnish apple tart with vanilla sauce

Ingredients: 2 large eggs 100 g sugar 120 g whole spelt flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 75 ml milk 50 ml olive oil 2 apples, cut in half and thinly sliced 1-2 tsp ground cinnamon 1-2 tsp rapadura sugar Preparation: 1. Preheat the oven to 200°C and grease a round 26 cm pie dish. 2. Beat the eggs and the sugar until light and fluffy. 3. Combine the flour and the baking powder in a bowl. Sift the flour into the egg mixture and fold to combine. 4. Mix in the milk and the oil and pour the dough into the pie dish. 5. Arrange the apple slices on top of the dough and sprinkle with ground cinnamon and rapadura sugar. 6. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack. Vanilla sauce from the nearest shop :) Source of Recipe: Sent in by Kaisa via Postcrossing