Apple Cake. Thanks to my sister-in-law
Victoria, this is a delicious, simple yet
rustic dessert. I've already peeled and
sliced my apples. Most of them are about
an inch thick. They're soaking in a bowl
of ice water and the juice of half a
lemon. We'll just set this aside
until we're ready to use them. To prepare
your 8 inch cake pan for the cake, I'm
going to show you what my mom taught me.
Just a napkin with some Crisco
shortening and you'll rub it all around
the pan, on the sides covering the entire
surface. This will help or this will
prevent your cake from sticking to the
pan so it comes out easily. Some people
line the bottom and the sides with
parchment. This one is fine without the
parchment paper. Okay
sprinkle in a little bit of flour
all-purpose flour. And now you're just
going to rotate this on the bottom and
then on the sides you can do this back
into your container of flour or into
another container. And there you go, a
nicely coated pan. In the bowl I have 5
eggs, add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla, and
half a cup of sugar. Room-temperature
eggs, beat this well.
Now I'm following Victoria's method
exactly so you might notice on. Or this
method is not your typical way to make
cake, but it's delicious and it works so
I'm going to keep it that way.
If you need butter to come to room
temperature in a hurry, just slice it up
into little chunks and it will won't
take long. This is 3/4
cups of unsalted
butter. Normally you would cream your
butter and sugar right then add your eggs
and such, but not for this cake and it
works so why change it.  Just beat
this until it's well combined.
Okay, it's about two minutes there then
we're going to add the flour. It's 1 and
3/4 cups of flour, now in the cookbook I
noticed a little error.  Remember Guam. This
recipe is in Remember Guam, under the
recipe or the ingredients section I
listed one and a quarter cup but under
the directions it's 1 and 3/4 cups so
one and 3/4 cups of flour and a teaspoon
of baking powder. Now normally you mix
mix the baking
powder with the flour but not here.  And
then I'm gonna go ahead and mix this a
little bit here and have your walnuts
ready to add. That was 1/2 a cup of
chopped walnuts and I just chopped them
on a cutting board
with the knife. Scrape the sides here. You
buy chopped walnuts or walnuts in the
bag that are already chopped they're
kind of small pieces so I get walnut
halves and chop them myself then
measure 1/2 cup.
Doesn't take long to do the final mixing.
Pour half of your cake batter into the
pan. Oh I'm so excited to have this cake.
I won't eat it until tomorrow. Spread
it around.
More down here.
Well I hope this pan is
staying centered for you.
Then we're going to lay the apple slices down. Put them as close
together as possible. This is such a
yummy cake. If you have thin
slices just double it up I find the
thicker the apple the more moist and
delicious the cake is. We'll save a few
slices for the top as decor.
A thinner piece of an apple in there.
I cut three to four Fuji apples so you
can put a lot or as few as you
want in there. I'm gonna cheat. Let's make
this fit here. To fit better cut it off a
little bit there we go.
A few slices are kind of thin there.
Another piece there. Mmm I want more
apples more apples my sister-in-law was
so funny she had lots of hilarious
commentary and expressions.
Okay one more thin one there we go. Now
for the rest of the batter oh this is
gonna be so delicious I can't wait.
Add a few walnut pieces and apple slices
to decorate the top.  Just spread the
batter all the way to the end or the
edge.
 
I mean this is not a very mmm rich cake
in a sense that it didn't have that much
butter, but it had plenty of eggs,  And
it's just rustic, perfect. That's why I
included it in my cookbook. Okay and a
couple slices on the top.
 
Walnuts and put instead of a walnut half
I just kind of went through my bag of
walnuts and picked out bigger pieces.
This one in the middle.
Alright and this is ready to go into
your preheated oven at 350 degrees for
30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick
inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Walla, our apple cake is done, it's
gorgeous, but it actually took about 65
minutes in my oven. Okay we're gonna flip
this over. It's a very hot cake pan. I let
the cake rest in here for 10 minutes.
Just onto one hand I know this is a very
dense cake so I didn't have to use a
plate, but it's just kind of going to rest there. And
you can see, the moistness of the
apples yummy.
 
