Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french apple cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
French Apple Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. French Apple Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook french apple cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make French Apple Cake:
- Get Unsalted Butter, 115g + More For Greasing
- Get 110 g Bleached All Purpose Flour,
- Make ready 1 TSP Baking Powder,
- Take Pinch Sea Salt,
- Prepare 2 Eggs Room Temperature,
- Make ready 60 g Granulated Sugar,
- Make ready 60 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
- Get 3 TBSP Brandy,
- Take 1 TSP Pure Vanilla Paste,
- Prepare 2 Granny Smith Apples Peeled Cored Diced,
- Take 3 Red Gala Apples Cored Diced,
Don't use a spatula to scrape the browned butter out of the skillet—simply pour it into the bowl. A skim coat of butter in the pan is needed for cooking the apples. And don't slice the cake until it has fully cooled; if it is at all warm, the. For our own version of this classic French dessert, we wanted the best of both worlds: a dessert with a custardy, apple-rich base beneath a light, cakelike topping.
Steps to make French Apple Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius or 350 fahrenheit.
Grease the cake pan generously with butter and set aside.
In a skillet over medium low heat, add butter.
- Swirl to melt the butter gently.
Once melted, continue cooking until butter start to brown.
You can actually see that the milk starts to separated and the milk solids start to caramelize.
- Remove from heat.
Pour into a bowl thru' a coffee filter over a fine strainer.
Discard any residue.
Reserve a few TBSP for serving (optional).
- Measure the melted butter again.
Add water if necessary to retain the weight as 115g.
Set aside to cool to room temperature.
In a large mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix to combine well.
In another large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer, whisk eggs until foamy.
Add in sugar and continue whisking until the sugar has dissolved.
Add in brandy and vanilla paste.
- Give it a final whisk.
Add in half of the flour mixture and half of the melted butter.
Using a spatula, fold to combine well making sure no large lumps.
Add in the remaining half of the flour mixture and melted butter.
- Fold to combine well.
Make sure no large lumps.
You can pass the batter thru a fine strainer just to make sure.
Add in the apples.
- Mix to coat the apples well with the batter.
Transfer into the cake pan.
Wack into the oven and bake for about 50 mins to an hr.
Or until the cake is browned and if you insert a skewer into the cake, it comes out clean.
- Keep an eye on the cake, as different ovens may varies and the cake can turn from being browned to burnt very fast.*
Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely.
Slice and serve with apricot compote, vanilla bean ice cream and beurre noisette (browned butter).
- To make the apricot compote, place 500g of apricots (fresh, washed, halved and pitted) in a medium sauce pot. Add 1/4 cup of water and about 1/4 cup of granulated sugar (adjust to preference). Add in a stick of cinnamon and 3 cloves. Stir to combine well and until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to a slow simmer. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for 5 to 10 mins.
To ensure that the apple slices softened fully, we microwaved them briefly This French apple cake has a dual texture going on - the bottom of the cake is packed with apples and has a custard-type texture, while the top part has a traditional cake texture. It's not overly sweet, but it's bursting with apples and the sprinkling of powdered sugar on top is the perfect accompaniment. The cake is easily mixed up in a bowl, scraped into a cake pan, and in less than the time it takes to run to the pâtisserie for a store-bought cake—or a seemingly simple length of fabric—you can have an authentic French cake right from your own oven. Reviews: Most Helpful Most Helpful Most Positive Least Positive Newest. French apple cake is really a lot of apple with a little bit of batter joining the apples together, baked till tender then a sugary, butter topping finishes off the cake.
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