Apple Cake

Apple cake brings out the best in apples in cake variety. It functions beyond the established apple pie and takes apples into a more charmed dessert or afternoon bite. The apples, sliced or chopped up, may be mixed into the batter or used as a topping like an upside down cake. In other instances, the apples are turned into applesauce and merged into the batter to make the cake moist and full of apple flavor. Get apple cake recipe videos online here.

The standard apple cake recipe spotlights the remarkable combination of cinnamon and apple. Ground cinnamon adds a subtle hint of spice to the apple cake just as it does to apple pies. To make an apple cake, you would need a baking apple that must be peeled, cored and then cut. It is tossed with a bit of flour and sugar so that it bonds to the batter when supplied later.

The cake batter is then gathered, starting with mixing the dry elements first (flour, sugar, baking powder and salt) before the liquid ingredients are added (eggs, oil, melted unsalted butter, orange juice and vanilla extract). Unlike the more delicate chiffon and angel cakes, the apple cake has the less delicate crumbs and the more flavorful batter of a pound cake.

To bake the apple cake batter, it must be poured in a cake pan or a tube pan (a Bundt cake pan would also look appealing when you unmold the cake later) but only halfway. Arrange the apple slices on top of this batter before you pour the last remaining cake batter on the slices. Finally, finish off with the last of the apple slice mixture. Cool the apple cake onto a wire rack.

Give the apple cake some crackle by adding chopped up walnuts into the cake batter or arrange some toasted pecans on the bottom of the cake pan before pouring the batter. When you serve the apple cake, the nuts on top will look appetizing and provide a contrast texture to the apples.

Experiment with other flavors and ingredients that would go nicely with your apple cake. For one, cranberries, caramel, sour cream, buttermilk, yogurt, cornmeal and even ginger will give you exciting flavors for your apple cake. As topping, make a cream cheese frosting, brown sugar glaze and streusel topping, or a great quality vanilla bean ice cream for your apple cake.