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An Apple Cake A Day…17/04/2011 in Cake, Fruit, Traybakes | Tags: apple peeling, comfort eating, Dorset apple tray bake
Sometimes, and let me tell you, those times include when you have a hard little baby head pushing out of yourabdomen like an extremely hurty alien, you bake for comfort. And to my mind, baking apples is one of the mostcomforting smells in the world. Off I hobbled to look through the recipe book shelf, and my BBC Good FoodTeatime Treats book kindly obliged with this: a Dorset apple tray bake, looking all sugary and denselydelicious. Perfect.
I should qualify that while baking apples may be comforting, weighing, peeling, coring and thinly slicing 450gof apples is much less enjoyable. I always consider the French to be le Kings of thinly sliced apples, and had arenewed appreciation for all their tartes aux pommes once I’d scraped my knuckles, bent back several nails, andsprayed juice absolutely everywhere, including in my eye. (If anyone knows how to use an apple corer withoutinflicting personal injury, I’d be interested to hear about it.) Still, we got there in the end. The recipe calls forBramleys, by the way, but I always find those too tart, so I used the Golden Delicious we already had in thehouse. Also, 450g makes FAR too many apple slices for one cake. We froze the remainder (always useful tohave the option for an Emergency Apple Crumble, I think) but if you only have 3 apples in the house instead of4, you’ve got plenty.
Once all the peeling and slicing was out of the way, I put the apples aside with a squeeze of lemon juice and goton with the cake. Nothing difficult here – it’s an unusually eggy mixture, which I think is intended to make thefinished product more puddingy. There’s a lot of flour too, which made the cake mix extremely stiff, and hardto spread into the tin. But spread you must: in goes a layer of cake mix, then a layer of apples, then anotherlayer of cake mix and one more of apples to finish.
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Oddly, this recipe does not call for cinnamon. I am so unable to think of apples without cinnamon that Isprinkled some on each layer anyway, and felt terribly daring when I did it. Take that, BBC! You’re not theboss of me.
(The Other Half was delighted when there was some cake mix left over too – I didn’t quite have the right sized
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tin – and composed an appley cinnamon blob of his own devising. It wasn’t half bad, actually.)
Anyway, after 45 minutes in the oven the cake has more peaks and valleys than a moonscape, but tasteswonderful. Something about the regularity of the sliced apples on the top is very pleasing, too. The BBCrecommends serving it warm with clotted cream or vanilla ice cream, and I would wholeheartedly agree (I putthe leftovers in the fridge and I think they’ve suffered a little for it – it’s much denser and harder to eat cold – soI’d store it in a cake tin instead). I curled up in a corner under a blanket and ate Quite a Lot, and felt muchbetter.
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Deliciousness: Top marks. Smells divine, too, which was really what I was after.
Complexity: If you can stand slicing all those apples, the rest of it isn’t difficult. The construction is therapeuticwithout being too fiddly.
Washingup pile: Twelve: quite a lot of apple slicing paraphernalia, plus the usual mixing bowls and woodenspoons.
Casualties: Bent nails, scraped fingers and general appley displeasure. Next time I’ll hire a Frenchman for thatpart.
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17/04/2011 at 8:41 pmvanessawest
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20/04/2013 at 7:26 amracheljeffcoat
Why are you two not the size of houses?I’ve put on 2lbs just reading your blog!
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This looks fantastic, I’ve got ahankering for apple cake now! And youare completely right, you can’t have apples
without cinnamon
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Funnily enough, I’m once again at thestage where I’ve got a little baby headpressing on my abdomen – perhaps today is
another apple cake day! And apple cake and cinnamon are just made for eachother, I agree
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