📋 Italian Apple Cake

This Italian apple cake is simply made with plenty of apples to fully enjoy their taste: 1 kilo (2 pounds) of apples and no other spices added. It is the juice from these apples that make this cake creamy and fluffy.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Apple cake, Apple cupcake, fruit cupcake

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 10

Servings slices

Calories 416kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

5 apples (2 lb - 1 kg)
½ lemon juice half of a whole lemon juiced
½ cup butter at room temperature
½ cup caster sugar
2 fresh eggs
1 ½ cup flour 8.8 oz (if your batter is too dry, try measuring the flour in oz instead of cups)
4 teaspoon baking powder

Topping

¼ cup butter (50 gr)
¼ cup caster sugar (50 gr)

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Cut the apples into large chunks
5 apples
Mix them with lemon juice so they don't get brown
½ lemon juice
Prepare the cake mix, first whisking the butter at room temperature with the sugar
½ cup caster sugar, ½ cup butter
Then add the eggs, combining them one at the time
2 fresh eggs
In a bowl mix the flour with the baking powder and add it to the cake batter
1 ½ cup flour, 4 teaspoon baking powder
The batter should be soft and creamy

Making the cake

Cover the bottom of a round baking tin with parchment paper, butter and coat with flour
Pour the cake mix into the baking tin and spread evenly
Cover with the apples, pushing the apples down into the mix

Making the topping

Melt the ¼ cup - 50 gr of sugar and ¼ cup - 50 gr of butter in the microwave
¼ cup butter, ¼ cup caster sugar
Pour it over the apples

Bake

Bake in the oven at 355 F - 180 C for 1 hour
Once the cake is ready, let it rest 10 minutes before removing it from the pan
With a spatula, detach the apples and the cake from the side of the pan
Remove the ring
Place the cake on a serving dish removing the bottom of the pan and the parchment paper
Serve warm or at room temperature

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Notes

Once you cut the apples, they tend to become brown. To avoid that, mix them with some lemon juice
Make sure you remove the butter from the fridge 1 hour before you make the cake
Add one egg at a time to make sure they are well combined
Push the apples into the batter so the juices from the apple will form a nice creamy center
If you do not want to add the sugar and the butter on top of the apples, you don't have to. The cake will be nice even without it
If you want to make cupcakes instead of a cake, cut the apples into smaller chunks and bake at 355 F - 180 C for 30 minutes

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