Äppelkaka (Swedish apple cake)

A little history:

Äppelkaka is a traditional Swedish cake. Although I could not find much history, this cake is usually eaten for breakfast and is also eaten with coffee. Even though this cake is found in the cake section of Sweden, in america they sometimes consider it as a pie and is extremely popular in the US.

Ingredients: 

• 110 grams of soft unsalted butter
• 150 grams of light brown soft sugar and a little bit to sprinkle on the top 
• 2 large eggs
• 210 grams of plain sifted flour
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon 
• 300 grams of cooking apples or 600 grams of normal apple, peeled and cored and sliced 

Method: 

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade/ 360 fahrenheit. Peel and core the apples, then slice and add them to a bowl of water with some lemon juice. (The lemon juice will stop the apples loosing their colour, but don't add too much other wise your apple cake with become a lemon apple cake!)

 

2. Grease a 20 centimeter loose bottom tin. Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until super creamy and fluffier than a unicorns mane, then add the eggs one at a time and beat until mixed together. 

 

3. Sift all the dry ingredients into a separate bowl and then fold them into the wet ingredients, until all combined. The mixture will be VERY thick and will resemble a mud pie but don't worry because a) that's how its meant to look and b) this mud pie will actually taste pretty good! 

4. Using a slotted spoon take out the apples and let some of the water drain before adding them to the cake mixture. Fold the apples into the cake mixture until all combined, then add to the tin making sure the mix is equally distributed and sprinkle some sugar on top. Cover with tin foil and then place into the oven for 40-45 minutes, after 30 minutes remove the foil (I was an idiot and forgot because I was to busy eating spaghetti bolognese so mine does look sightly ill)  

 

This cake is so moist and warming that it is perfect for an autumn day! Its great warm with ice cream or cold with a nice coffee and some friends so you can talk about the news, boys and quadratic equations! 

Next Time...

WILL BE A SPECIAL BLOG!!!! One of my favorite times of the year is coming round... HALLOWEEN!  So I thought I would do a special post, showing you the history, some awesome recipes and how to hold a shindig! 

Thanks for reading and sorry this has taken forever to upload as I have just started 6th form!