French Apple Cake~

[Colleen-NC]

The Apple Lady's Apple Cake ...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Patricia Wells and the apple lady

Ingredients:
Cake
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt (regular table salt can be used)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/3 cup whole milk
Finely slivered zest of 1 scrubbed lemon
2 pounds (4 to 6) baking apple, cored, peeled,and cut into thin slices
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Topping
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
Finely slivered zest of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

Directions:
1) Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and set it aside.
2) In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; stir to blend. Add vanilla extract, eggs, oil, milk and lemon zest; stir until well blended. Add apples and stir to coat them with batter.
3) Spoon the mixture into prepared cake pan. Bake in center of oven until fairly firm and golden, about 25 to 35 minutes.
4) Meanwhile, prepare topping: In a small bowl, combine the sugar, egg, melted butter and lemon zest and juice; stir to blend. Set aside.
5) Remove cake from oven and pour topping mixture over it. Return cake to oven and bake until top is a deep golden brown and cake feels quite firm when pressed with a fingertip, about 10 minutes.
6) Transfer cake pan to a rack and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Then run a knife around the sides of pan, and release and remove springform ring, leaving the cake on the pan base. Serve warm or at room temperature. Yield: 8 servings.

Recipe courtesy of Patricia Wells - The Paris Cookbook

[Colleen-NC]

When I read about the topping at first I was bummed, can't have raw eggs......then I seen it goes back in the oven! Sounds so good!! WE are currently in a mini heat wave but next week its cooling off so I hope to try it then!

[merryfl]

Colleen - this sounds absolutely wonderful!!! I love apples and this would be so good!! When I was a kid, we used to buy TV dinners. My favorite one was fried chicken and mashed potatoes with apple cake for dessert. It was so yummy! I don't think I've ever seen a recipe for one. I can't wait to try this. What kind of apples would you use?

[elizabethfl]

Colleen, it is really a cake you should try. I was surprised at how simple it was to make. I used over two pounds of apples. This was just four Granny Smith apples, but they were large apples (weighed a little over 9 ounces each) Make sure you get the lemons! Make sure you follow the instructions in her introduction and cook it until it is firm. The amount of apples could throw the cooking time off

It has been 90 degrees in my kitchen, but this cake was worth heating up the oven. I can't seem to get by without sweets.

Merry this is nothing like the desert in the TV dinners. I also remember one TV dinner that had a desert that was sooooo delicious. I can't remember if it was the apple one, but I think it was. Seemed so simple but I could never make anything like it, and I really tried.

[Colleen-NC]

Been trying to post this for like 10 mins...server must be busy, hope this goes this time~~

"Ya know I have 4 Jazz apples on the counter and I was going to throw them out to the deer, they are in need of being eaten or in a few more days they will need to go, maybe I will do this in the morning. I only have 1 working AC and I have a big oven so~~~don't want to heat up the house~maybe even later on tonight if I don't fall asleep.


Merry, I usually use Granny Smith when baking cause they hold up well but have used the Jazz & Honey Crisp and A few others I can't think of ...lol "

[Colleen-NC]

grrr....I have 2% milk, fat free milk and half & half......lol I may run over to the convenience store and pick up a thing of whole milk........