scrumptious apple cake

This recipe comes from the worldwide-famous blog Smitten Kitchen. I randomly saw it hanging in my Facebook feed, decided to try it, because who doesn't eat apple cake in autumn and family and friends liked it, so it quickly became a favourite!

It is not only delicious, your house smells like cinnamon for days, your husband loves you more every time he eats a piece... overall, it is a magical cake :D

 

APPLE CAKE

(recipe adapted from Smitten Kitchen) 

INGREDIENTS

Apples:

8 apples, making sure they are sweet and juicy

1/4 juice of one lemon

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

5 tbsp granulated brownsugar

Cake dough:

2 3/4 cups flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon sea salt

1 cup sunflower oil

2 cups granulated sugar

1/2 cup orange juice

1 teaspoon Madagascan ground vanilla powder (extract will do fine too)

4 large eggs

 Instructions:

* cover a cake pan with baking paper (cutting one circle for a bottom and one long sheet to cover the walls of your cake pan). Heat the oven to 170C (with the fan on).

* peel and clean the apples, cut them in even pieces, sprinkle the lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon and stir everything

*prepare the cake dough by the dry ingredients/wet ingredients principle: flour, baking powder and salt mixed in one large bowl; oil, orange juice, sugar, vanilla and eggs are mixed together in a separate bowl. The wet ingredients are added into the dry ones and all ingredients are mixed into a smooth dough.

*pour into four layers: one layer dough, one apples, one dough, then top with apples; 

* bake for about as long as it takes from 1 1/2h to 2h, until a tester comes out clean (check under the apples layer too)

*now the recipe says cool completely before opening the cake form, but since we have baking paper, that is not even necessary. I prefer to remove the upper part of the cake pan to allow cooling more quickly (because no one can wait hours for a cake to cool of, right?)

*can be kept in a tight air container for up to 5 days (if there is any left, of course)

mhmmmm... enjoy :)