Harvest cooking: layered apple cake

My friend gave me lots of apple (thank you, Carol!) so I baked a layered apple cake. Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe so here it is.

Layered apple cake

Ingredients:

 

Dry ingredients:

1 cup all purpose flour

1 cup farina cereal or semolina

1 cup sugar

1 table spoon baking powder

1/2 tea spoon cinnamon

a dash of salt

7 tart medium apples or 13-14 small ones / about 6 cups when shredded. If your apples are sweet you may want to reduce the amount of sugar.

1/4 tea spoon nutmeg

1 stick cold butter (has to be refrigerated until needed)

rectangular baking pan

cooking spray

wax paper or parchment paper

How to make an apple layered cake:

1. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, divide the mix into 3 parts.

2. Prepare your apples: remove core, seeds and peel. Shred them with vegetable shredder, mix with a nutmeg and divide to 2 parts.

 

3. Preheat your oven to 350"F degree. Prepare your baking pan: spray it a cooking spray, line with a sheet of either wax or parchment paper and spray the paper.

4. Arrange the layers in your baking pan: spread 1st part of dry ingredients, then add apples on top. Repeat one more time, then add the remaining dry ingredients as a last layer. We got 3 dry ingredients layers and 2 apple ones.

 

4. Take your butter out of refrigerator, quickly shred it on the same vegetable shredder and arrange on top of last layer.

5. Bake at 350'F for about 45 minutes until the cake will turn golden brown. Remove from the oven, cool it down, slice and serve. It will pair well with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

Enjoy!

Fall days and an apple cake (with recipe)

I wrote this Warm Apple Cake post for Russian Artists' blog and got in the mood for it myself :). So I baked the cake and we all enjoyed it. It finally feels like Fall here in the Valley!

The recipe is very easy and it will take about an hour to cook. My mother used to make it  for a last minute treat or unexpected company so this recipe is pretty old.

 

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
4 large apples, peeled and chopped (about 4 cups)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 table spoon lemon juice
5 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1 table spoon baking powder
Baking spray, rectangular baking dish (approx. 9 1/2" by 13 12/" and 2" deep)

Preheat oven to 385"F. Prepare the baking dish by spraying it with a non-stick baking spray. Peel and chop apples, sprinkle them with the lemon juice and cinnamon, set aside.

In a large bowl, beat together eggs, vanilla and sugar. Add flour and baking powder, beat together until smooth. Mix with apples and pour into baking dish. Bake for about 35 to 40 minutes.

 

Enjoy your Fall and apple cake!