French Apple Cake
French Apple Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, french apple cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

French Apple Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. French Apple Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

With chunks of sweet apples nestled in a tender and buttery rum cake, this French apple cake is the essence of simplicity. This traditional French cake is the definition of simplicity. It starts with a rum-based cake batter, which is then loaded up with sweet apple chunks to ensure every bite includes a bite of apple goodness.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook french apple cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make French Apple Cake:
  1. Get Unsalted Butter, 115g + More For Greasing
  2. Prepare 110 g Bleached All Purpose Flour,
  3. Prepare 1 TSP Baking Powder,
  4. Make ready Pinch Sea Salt,
  5. Make ready 2 Eggs Room Temperature,
  6. Get 60 g Granulated Sugar,
  7. Take 60 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
  8. Prepare 3 TBSP Brandy,
  9. Get 1 TSP Pure Vanilla Paste,
  10. Take 2 Granny Smith Apples Peeled Cored Diced,
  11. Take 3 Red Gala Apples Cored Diced,

French apple cake is a classic French dessert that is more of a custard-like cake. It is filled with apples and blended with just enough flour, eggs, butter, and sugar to bind it together. This Gluten-Free French Apple Cake, adapted from Cook's Illustrated, has a rich custardy bottom, a light cake layer and a crisp sugary topping. Serve it warm, or at room temperature.

Instructions to make French Apple Cake:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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).
  10. 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.

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. Our French Apple Cake beats apple pie any day. Forget the crust and make this simple French dessert, featuring For a more casual apple pie, lose the crust. This French Apple Cake begins with sautéing the crisp apples in butter and sugar. My favorite way to eat this French Apple Cake is to pair it with a sweet whipped cream.

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