Toffee apple upside down cake

When the Husband decides to go for a diet, baking cakes seem to be the best idea ever! How can you resist the apple pie with cinnamon flavour? Add the caramel glaze flowing down the cake and the recipe for a delicious afternoon is ready!

The recipe is from inncuisine.com

Ingredients
glaze
1 apple
4 tbsp butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
cake:
2 big ground apples
2 large eggs, slightly whisked
8 tbsp butter
¾ cup brown sugar
1 ¾ cups wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
3,5 oz (100 g) walnuts ( slightly roasted)
pinch salt


Method
Peel and grate 2 apples. 1 apple thinly slice. Heat up the butter with sugar in a saucepan, whisk. Pour the butter ‘toffee’ mixture into a greased cake pan. Place the apple slices on the ‘toffee layer’.

Mix butter with sugar and pinch of salt until fluffy. Gradually add whisked eggs. Well combine all ingredients. In a separate bowl mix sieved flour, spices, baking powder and baking soda. Combine both mixtures. Add apples and walnuts. Spoon the batter into a cake pan on top of the apples. Bake in preheated oven to 360 F/ 180 oC for about 40 min, until a toothpick stick in the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove from oven, let cool down for about 10 minutes, then place a cake plate on top, and wearing oven mitts, flip the cake out onto the plate. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.

Cottage cheese apple pie

The Autumn is an ideal season to bake an apple pie. To fill the full house with the flavour of apples and cinnamon, apple pie for a dessert, when it’s grey outside….

This version of the pie is also great because of the cottage cheese. This combination beats me into a cocked hat. Can you imagine something better?! The pie taste like cheesecake, has a nice milky note but apples and cinnamon crust dominate in it.

Ingredients
1 ¼ cup sugar
½ cup oil
7 oz (200 g) minced cottage cheese
2 eggs
1 ½ cups wheat flour
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 apples
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder

Method
Mix 1 cup sugar with oil and cottage cheese. Beat in one egg at the time. Add all the dry ingredients. When well combined add peeled and diced apples. Spoon the batter into the greased cake pan. Sprinkle the top with sugar (1/4 cup sugar – I used brown one) and cinnamon. Bake for about 1 hour and 15 min. at 350 F (175 oC).

(big) Breakfast apple bun

When I woke up in a December morning and all I can see outside are snow drifts and lovely temperature -13 oC, I’m dreaming about warm buns with a favour of butter and cinnamon. Cup of hot cocoa and suddenly I have so much energy I can even start Christmas cleaning!(I based on 'White Plate' recipe).

Ingredients
0,5 oz (10 g) fresh yeast
4,5 fl oz (130 ml) warm water
1 oz (30 g) sugar
1/3 tbsp salt
11 oz (330 g) flour
1 egg, whisked
1,2 oz (35 g) melted and cooled butter
2 tbsp raisins ( I used: Sultanas nad Currants)
2 tbsp vanilla sugar
2 apples


Method
In a bowl combine yeast with warm water. When yeast melts add flour, sugar and salt. Stirring add egg and butter. In another bowl put raisins in a hot water for 1 min, after 1 min strain. Put raisins into the flour mixture. Knead the dough until smooth and elastic. When the dough starts getting off the bowl walls put it on a counter and knead for another 5-10 min. Put it back to the bowl for 2 hours. During this time you should twice punch the dough down.

Place the dough in a cake pan lined with baking pan. On top put peeled and sliced apples ( you can sprinkle cinnamon and 2 tbsp of brown sugar). Cover with cling film put aside for 30-40 min. to rise. Bake for about 40 min at 360 F (180 oC).

Granny Smith or an apple cake

I bought apples, which turned out to be wine apples so eating them wasn’t a pleasure for me. And as no one has to talk me into baking cakes, I searched in the Internet and after an hour the Granny Smith apple cake was on the table (if you will have some free time read their history).
Apple cake was very moist and aromatic. I made it with double portion of ingredients in a medium size cake pan (about 25 cm/10 in) and served with vanilla sauce.
10 people ate this cake and honestly everyone loved it…right!!(?)

Ingredients
1 cup wheat flour
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
4 tbsp butter (+some for greasing the pan)
2/3 cup sugar
½ cup buttermilk
1 egg
1 cup dice apples
vanilla essence
2 tbsp brown sugar

Method
In one bowl mix the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. In another bowl mix butter with sugar until fluffy and light. Add 1/3 dry ingredients mixture at one time to the egg mixture alternating with buttermilk. Well combine all ingredients. Gently spoon the batter in greased and floured pan. Put apples on top of it. Sprinkle the top with brown sugar (you can sprinkle it also with ground cinnamon). Bake at 200 oC (390 F) , for 30 min.

Eplepai – Norwegian apple cake (without fat)

There is nothing better than apple cake – don’t you agree? This Scandinavian version is very moist, crunchy because of almond flakes, and what is (the most) important it doesn’t consist any fat! To balance sweetness of the cake I put some cranberries on top of it. It is a very quick cake: take a spoon, mix the ingredients and it’s ready!!

Ingredients ( for a small cake pan, about 7 inch/ 18 cm)
3 apples
1 egg
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp milk
¾ cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon cardamom
½ cup almond flakes
¾ wheat flour
¼ cup frozen cranberries
2 tbsp coarse sugar to sprinkle the top

Method
Peel apples, finely slice them. Mix the rest of ingredients, add apples. Spoon the batter into the lined cake pan. Bake in preheated oven to 180 oC (350 F), for about 50 min. (until the toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean). Before serving sprinkle with coarse sugar.