Spiced Apple Cake
This Spiced Apple Cake, full of deep apple flavors, is probably the easiest, simplest, and most delicious apple cake recipe to try this Fall.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 60 g Vegetable oil
- 40 g Granulated sugar
- 60 g Brown sugar
- 1 Eggs
- 60 g Yogurt (thick, Greek or Turkish style)
- 100 g Pastry flour (All purpose flour works too)
- ½ teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- ⅓ teaspoon Ground cardamom
- ⅓ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
- ⅓ teaspoon Ground ginder
- 1 Apple (small pieces)
- 250 g Apple (Cut into small identical chunks)
- 100 g Apple puree (peel apples and blend it)
- 50 g Granulated sugar
- 10 g Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
- ¾ teaspoon Ground ginger
- 3 Gelatine sheets (1.7g gelatin per sheet)
Instructions
- 1
Heat oven to 180 C / 356°F ( no fan)
- 2
Prepare a 15 cm (6 inch) round cake pan with parchment paper
- 3
With an electric hand mixer whip room temperature egg, oil, granulated sugar and brown sugar until it becomes somewhat fluffy
- 4
Fold in room temperature yogurt
- 5
Sift dry ingredients together: flour, salt, spices, baking powder, and baking soda then fold dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with the help of a Rubber spatula
- 6
Fold apple chunks in just until combined. Pour cake batter into the pan
- 7
Bake for 30 min or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean
- 8
Cool the cake on Cooling rack
- 9
When the cake cooled, start preparing the apple compote
- 10
Peel and slice apples, 250g you will need in small pieces and 100g in puree
- 11
Soak gelatine sheets in cold water
- 12
Cook apple slices, apple puree, sugar, lemon juice and ginger powder in a saucepan over medium heat for 5 minutes
- 13
Remove saucepan from heat, squeeze excess water from gelatine sheets and stir them into apple compote
- 14
Assemble the Mousse cake ring (adjustable in size) and set it to the size of the cake that is 15cm / 6inch. For a neat looking, smooth side surface use Acetate cake collar within the mousse ring. Alternatively use a spring form tin
- 15
Place the chilled cake into the mousse ring and pour warm apple compote over. Smooth the top with an Offset spatula
- 16
Chill cake in the fridge for 4 hours for the apple compote to set
- 17
Once the apple topping is set, carefully remove the mousse ring and cake collar
- 18
Decorate with edible gold leaves. Store in fridge