Hi everyone, welcome to Delights to Share
and today I'll be making a very easy and delicious Apple Cake.
It's an old family reciped that
comes out perfect every time.
It's easy because
You simply prepare 3 parts to the recipe and
then you assemble it all in the pan.
Let me show you the 3 parts:
First we have the Dry Ingredients,
we'll use 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1 1/2 cups
of sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder
and 4 tablespoons of butter or margarine.
Second part of the recipe are the Wet Ingredients
which consists of 1 Cup of Milk, 2 eggs and
1 tsp of vanilla Extract.
Finally the 3rd part of the recipe is the
Apple Filling, I like to use 2 sour apples
like Granny Smith, a tablespoon of lemon juice,
1 tablespoon of sugar,and a half of a teaspoon
of cinnamon.
So lets get started with the first part of
the recipe: the dry ingredients:
in a medium bowl, I put flour, sugar, and baking powder
and then I give it a good mix with a wire whisk.
Next I add the cubed butter, preferably cold,
And then I squeeze the butter into the flour with my fingers
until it's well mixed and all the big pieces of butter disappear,
leaving the flour a little bit more yellow in color
and grainy.   OK, this is what it
should look like and we set it aside,
in the upper right corner of the screen
Now comes the second part of the recipe: the Wet Ingredients.
In a smaller bowl I place 2 eggs
,
and they need to be beaten for a good 3 to 5 minutes,
until they turn a lighter yellow
color and they are completely blended.
This step is VERY important because you don't want
chunks of egg yolk or chunks of egg white in your cake.
I speed up the video a little bit.
This is what it should look like, lighter
in color and frothy.
Now I add the vanilla,
and I beat some more.
Finally I add the milk slowly
while I continue beating
so it all gets well blended.
Once I'm done,
I set the bowl on the upper
middle part of the screen.
Finally here comes the 3rd part of the recipe: the Apple Filling.
In a medium bowl, the first ingredient I add
is the lemon juice.
Next I start peeling and slicing the first
green apple.
As you can see the slices should be
about a fourth of an inch thick at its
outer edge.
Quickly I give the apples a stir with the
lemon juice until they are well coated;
this prevents the apples from turning brown.
Now I do the same with the second apple, peeling
and slicing it,
and giving it a good stir with the lemon juice.
Once it's all coated with lemon juice, I add
the cinnamon,
and the sugar,
and I continue stirring until everything is coated
Alright, so this is the Apple Filling,
and I'll set it aside on the upper left corner of
the screen.
I preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
And I have the 3 parts of my cake here in front of me;
the dry ingredients, the wet ingredients,
and the apple filling.
And I prepare my baking dish, I butter it and I flour it.
And we're ready to assemble:
I grab the dry ingredients
and I run a knife a little less than halfway down the dry ingredients.
This smaller portion will be the bottom layer of my cake.
I lightly spoon this smaller portion of dry
ingredients into the baking dish.
Once this is complete,
I lightly even it out with a fork,
And when I even it out, I try not to  press it down.
The second part of the assembly of the cake is  adding the apple filling, in this case the
apple slices coated with cinnamon and sugar.
I like to place them a bit on top of each
other so there are plenty of apples in each serving.
This is what it should look like at the end.
And no need to press the apples down.
And now we are at the third part of the assembly:
we add the remainder of the dry ingredients on top of the apple filling,
again I spoon the dry ingredients lightly
over the apples,
making sure I coat everything,
and without pressing the dry ingredients down at all.
I give the baking dish a good jiggle
and the cake evens out and the dry ingredients fall into
the cracks of all the apple slices.
The fourth and final part of the assembly
of the cake is to add the wet ingredients,
but first I give it a good stir and then I
pour gently over the entire cake.
At this point, it's VERY important to let
the cake sit for 10 minutes
so the liquids can get all soaked up into the dry ingredients.
This is what it should look like and off to the oven it goes
for 55 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Here's the baked cake,
very nice!
I like to let it cool in the same dish for about 45 minutes
before serving.
Alright, I'm ready to serve, here I go.
Look at all those apples
well baked and nicely packed
in the center layer of the cake.
You can see that the cake is moist, and the batter was well blended
without ever beating the wet and dry ingredients together.
I'm ready to give it a taste, and believe me,
this cake tastes as delicious as it looks.
Every piece is packed with apples.
Absolutely delicious
I'm going to have to go for another
piece.
It's just so good
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