Dutch Apple Cake Or Plum Cake Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the apples, 3 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon; let stand for 1 hour. , In another bowl, cream butter and remaining sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and beat until smooth. , Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Push apple slices vertically into batter, placing them close together. , Bake at 300° for 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm.

Steps:

• Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl, cream shortening and 1 cup sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla until fluffy. Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with the sifted ingredients. Spread the batter into a greased 7 x 11 inch baking pan.
• Place apple pieces in rows on the batter with the sharp edges pressed in slightly. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon on top.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 50 to 60 minutes, or until the apples are tender and the cake tests done.

Steps:

• This cake has been made at Ballymaloe for years. We even have guests who ask for it specifically every time they visit. The fruit sinks to the bottom as it cooks, leaving a light sponge on top with a lovely sugary crust.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line the sides and base of a 8 by 8-inch square cake pan with parchment paper.
• Using an electric whisk or hand held mixer, whisk the eggs, 6 ounces caster sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl, until the mixture is thick and mousse-like, and the whisk leaves a figure of eight pattern, this will take about 5 minutes.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan with the milk, and then pour the mixture onto the eggs, whisking continuously. Sift in the flour, cinnamon, and baking powder, and fold carefully into the batter so that there are no lumps of flour. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan, and smooth the surface.
• Peel and core the apples, and cut them into thin slices, and then arrange them over the batter. They will sink to the bottom. This is meant to happen! Sprinkle the cake with the remaining 1/2 ounce sugar, and bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F, and bake until well risen and golden brown, about 20 to 25 minutes.
• Allow the cake to cool in the tin, cut into squares and serve warm. It is delicious with cream!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F and butter a 8-inch cake pan.
• Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
• Cut in butter.
• Beat egg, add milk and stir quickly into flour mixture.
• Place apples decoratively in the prepared cake pan, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon; spread dough over the top.
• Bake for 45 minutes.
• Loosen cake from sides and bottom and turn out onto a cake plate immediately.
• Serve with the dessert sauce of your choice; cinnamon, maple, butterscotch, brandy or lemon.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C/gas mark 4/fan 160C. Grease and line a 20cm cake tin.
• Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with a fork.
• Mix the eggs, a little at a time to the margarine and sugar. Sieve in the flour and baking powder.
• Spread the mixture into the cake tin.
• Core the apple and slice thinly. Arrange the apple slices over the cake mix and then sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar on top.
• Place in the oven and bake for around 20 minutes, until golden brown and springy to the touch.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking pan.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg into a large bowl. Toss 1/2 of the apples and 1/2 of the plums into the flour mixture. Place remaining apples and plums in a second bowl and toss with melted butter.
• Mix together sugar, applesauce, orange juice, oil, eggs, ginger, and vanilla extract in a third bowl. Mix together sugar and cinnamon in a small, fourth bowl.
• Fold applesauce mixture into the flour mixture until just moistened. Pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared baking pan and layer with apples and plums. Pour remaining batter on top and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven 375F.
• Grease and flour a 9 in. tart or pie pan.
• In a mixing bowl, combine flour, 2 T sugar and baking powder.
• With a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in 1 1/2 T margarine.
• Add egg whites, milk and vanilla; beat until smooth.
• Batter will be stiff.
• Spoon into prepared pan and spread batter to fit pan.
• Arrange apple slices, overlapping, in 2 concentric circles to cover batter.
• In a small bowl, combine 3 T sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over apple slices.
• Dot with 1/2 T margarine.
• Bake 30 min.
• Cool 10 min before serving.