The Apple Cake Collection

Ingredients: 1 cup of flour 0.5 cup of sugar 4 eggs Apples Splash of milk Preparation: 1. First you have to whisk eggs very well, because it makes pie fluffy without baking soda. 2. Then add sugar, flour and a splash of milk and mix everything together. 3. After that pour some pastry in your baking tray and add a layer of peeled apple slices, then a layer of pastry and slices again... 4. Finally bake in oven heated to 180 - 200 °C for 40-45 minutes. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Kristina via Postcrossing

Ingredients: 16 oz french loaf 2 cups milk 1 tbsp vanilla 2 tsp cinnamon 8 eggs 3/4 cup sugar 4 Granny Smith 3 tbsp butter Preparation: 1. Spray 9x13 pan with cooking spray, 2. Cut bread into 1" cubes, pack tightly into pan. 3. Beat eggs, milk, vanilla and 1/2 cup sugar - pour half over bread. 4. Peel, slice apples and put over bread. 5. Add the rest of the egg mix. 6. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over top, dot with butter. 7. Cover and refrigerate over night. 8. Bake 25 minutes at 350° F, remove foil and bake 20 more minutes. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Liz via Postcrossing

1. If a cake recipe calls for butter, get it almost to room temperature, but slightly cooler. It’ll warm up when mixed. 2. Don’t substitute baking soda and baking powder. 3. When measuring flour, don’t pack it down into the measuring cup. 4. Prepare your pans well, so you don’t waste time making the perfect cake, only to have it stuck in the pan. 5. Check your oven temperature. 6. When adding chocolate chips or fruit bits into your cake batter, coat them with flour to help keep them from sinking to the bottom of the pan. 7. Do freeze your baked cakes. 8. Stop worrying about getting flat tops on your baked cakes. 9. When mixing up your cake batter, don’t skip out on scraping down the bowl. 10. When baking cakes with fruit in them like banana, carrot, zucchini or pumpkin, let them sit overnight before serving them.

Ingredients: 2 shortcrust pastries (you can do it yourself as well but it will take a little bit longer) Apples, quite "hard" ones if possible; about 4 or 5 (according to your taste) Sugar (I personally like to use brown sugar) Juice of a yellow lemon Cinnamon Butter Some flour An egg yolk A little bit of water Preparation: 1. Cut the apples in slices or dices, as you want. Keep in mind that you'll need to bake them after ! So think about the size of saucepan. 2. Prepare your saucepan. Melt some butter in it, with a little bit of sugar (according to your taste but I don't usually ad a lot, fruits' sugar is enough to me). Gently add your apples; plus the lemon juice, and let it cook on a low fire. 3. Stir your apples time to time so they all cook the same way. Once you have a kind of "juice" in your saucepan, you can add some flour (like 2 and a half spoon) so you will have something thicker. Then add cinnamon. Once you're happy with the

Ingredients: 4 medium sized apples 1 premade 9 inch pie crust 1.5 tsp cornstarch 1 tbsp water 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 cup granulated white sugar 1 egg whisked (for egg wash) Preparation: 1. Slice off tops of apples. Using small sharp knife hollow out the centre of the apples, leaving about 1/4 - 1/2 inch on the sides. Save the flesh for filling. 2. Dice the removed apple flesh into small cubes. You should have about 1 cup worth when you are done. Make sure not to include seeds, skin, or any of the core. 3. Preheat oven 350 degrees F. 4. Dissolve cornstarch in water. 5. In small pot, combine 1 cup of diced apples, cornstarch mixture, cinnamon and white sugar.  6. Cook for about 5 minutes until apples are soft and syrup is brown and thick. 7. Add apple pie filling to each of the hollowed out apples. 8. Slice pie crust into 1/2 inch wide strips, long enough to be laid across the surface of the apple with a little extra hanging off of each side. 9. Lay 3 strips on the appl