The Apple Cake Collection

Ingredients: 2-3 apples 1-2 sweet potatoes raisins to taste chopped almonds to taste about 150 ml maple syrup or honey diluted with water cornflakes butter Preparations: 1. Peel and pre-cook the sweet potatoes. 2. Wash the apples, core them. 3. Slice sweet potatoes and apples. 4. Grease a baking dish and preheat the oven to 200 degrees. 5. Alternately place the apple and sweet potato slices in the greased baking dish, adding raisins and almonds as desired. 6. Pour maple syrup over it. 7. Top up with a layer of cornflakes and add some butter flakes. 8. Bake the casserole dish on a medium rack at 200 degrees until the apple slices are done (toothpick test, until everything feels soft). 9. Serve the dessert warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Source of Recipe: Sent in by Kate via Postcrossing

Ingredients: 3 apples 4 slides bread to make French toast a little bit of coconut blossom sugar or maple syrup or honey 2 eggs a little bit of butter a little bit milk seeds (flaxseeds, sunflowerseeds, ....) almond flakes cinnamon Preparation: 1. Peal the apples and cut them in pieces. 2. Heat some butter in a pan and bake the apples for a few minutes. 3. Add the sugar to caramelise a little bit. 4. Scramble the eggs with a little bit of milk. 5. Put the apples on a plate (keep them warm). 6. Soak the bread in the eggs. 7. Heat some butter in the pan, bake the bread. 8. Put the bread on a plate,  add the apples and decorate with the seeds, almonds, cinnamon. Enjoy. You can add extra maple syrup,  cream, icecream... Source of Recipe: Sent in by Nicole (inspired by Jeroen Meus "Dagelijks kost" "Verloren croque met appeltjes")

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.