How to Bake the Best German Apple Cake
Posted: Monday, December 05, 2011
by The Old Gray Mare
www.DressYourHorse.com
Long a favorite dessert in our household, this cake makes 12 to 16 servings. It is simple to prepare and is guaranteed to be delicious. Preparation time is a fast 15 minutes or less. You’ll spend most of the 15 minutes peeling and slicing the apples (about 6).
Expect to bake this recipe for approximately 70 minutes. After baking, let the apple cake cool down for about one hour before removing it from the pan.
3 Cups All-Purpose Flour
3 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Salt
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4 Eggs
2 Cups Sugar
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1 Cup Canola Oil
1/2 Cup Orange Juice
2 1/2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
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4 Cups Apples, peeled and sliced thin
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2 Teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
3 Tablespoons Sugar
Confectioners Sugar
The Old Gray Mare is partial to easy recipes that are quick to prepare and also pass discriminating taste tests. This recipe has survived many years because it fits our busy lifestyles and exceeds the tests.
Step 1 – Set your oven to 350 degrees and preheat. Grease a Bundt Pan or Tube Pan with Butter, then dust with Flour. If you prefer, coat the pan with Cooking Spray.
Step 2 - Mix together the Flour, Baking Powder and Salt. Set aside for now.
Step 3 – Use a large bowl. Mix the 4 Eggs and Sugar.
Step 4 – Blend the Orange Juice and Canola Oil.
Step 5 – Alternately add the liquid ingredients and the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, beating until smooth.
Step 6 – Add Vanilla and blend thoroughly.
Step 7 – Pour half of the well-mixed batter into the greased pan. Tap to even mixture.
Step 8 – Distribute half of the sliced apples on top of the batter.
Step 9 – Mix the sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle half over the apples.
Step 10 – Add the remaining batter; tap lightly to level; again layer the remaining apple slices and add the cinnamon sugar.
Set the Pan into the preheated 350 degree oven and bake for 70 minutes. Test with toothpick pulls out clean.
Allow the cake to cool for one hour and remove from pan. Set the cake, apple/cinnamon sugar side up, on a wire rack. Allow to cool to room temperature. Optional: sprinkle the top of cake with confectioners sugar.
Serve with coffee, tea or milk. Enjoy your German Apple Cake with friends and family.
I have yet another delicious recipe for apple cake that differs from this recipe. It's another yummy and easy-to-make dessert. One of the ingredients in that one is buttermilk. Look for it next.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)OH YUM...I'm printing this one off and making it for family.. the next brunch.That's so cool. Thank you. You'll love it and it's a cinch to make. I'm not a baker but once in a while I'll make something easy.
Oh wow. Thanks for your contribution to my temptations.That's me. A temptress.
Well, the cake is great. Easy. and Yummy.
Hi Heidi.
Sounds delicious! I'll have to make some substitutions due to my allergies, but I think I can still work it out.
Danke schoen!
Hugs,
DianneBitte schoen. Sie sprechen Deutsch? Das ist von Berndt?
Darn allergies. Be careful with it. Should still be great. The apples really taste good in this cake.Ich spreche nuer ein bisschen Deutsch. Bernd spricht mehr, naturlich. Er kamm nach America wenn er 8 Jahre alt war und so er hat keine accent auf English. That's about the best I can do. I understand it better than I can speak or write it. And I started taking German in high school before I ever met Bernd. Mostly because the greater part of my ancestry is German with some British and a little native American thrown in for interest.Ich denke das Du besser sprechen kanst denn ich. Mein Bruder and Usela in Florida sprechen immer Deutsch zusammen. Aber ich have niemand hier so das mein Deutsch nicht mehr gut ist. Ich muss richtig schwer denken was ich sagen moechte und dann ist es nicht grammatically korrect. Ich mache auch "gemixte pickeln" - my own versions. Teeheehee. You are really very good at it. Probably better than me eve - I've no one to speak to here. It's been eons.The above sounds a lot like my German. I don't get to use it much either. Bernd calls his cousin in Germany now and then and writes to him. He also writes to his step mom, but she speaks a little English so it's easier. When she still lived in California and Bernd and I would visit, she and I would go out together and she would speak German and I would speak English and we'd have a perfectly fine conversation. People would stare at us though. :) I call my German a gemischung. Bernd had some problems with certain words in English for a long time because they are so similar to German ... like salad ... which is lettuce in German. And mist which is, I think, manure. I might know the words and how to spell them (I can spell in German even better than Bernd) but saying them ... achdumeinegutte ... sometimes I just can't wrap my mouth around them.Been too long responding but I've been swamped. Gemischung is just like my Aufgemixte Pickeln. A little Deutsch gemixt mit other Woerte. It's funny. Germans don't speak German that much in public. They are immensely proud of how well they can actually speak English. Other nationalities should take some note. I find it offensive to hear people jibbering away in other languages. Especially, as I've said before, retail people and people that are supposed to help. If I were their boss, I would have a ruling about speaking another language in front of customers. It's impolite. Anyway, you know a great deal of German and it's not an easy language to pick up easily because of the compound words and high German is harder yet.
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