Danish Apple Cake Recipe | Easy Tea Cakes

Danish apple cake recipe with step by step photos.Tea cakes or Brownies are the most preferred ones at home rather than the cream based cakes.I have made this Danish apple cake several times and served to guests and I have even baked them in beautiful disposable loaf pans and it was loved by everyone.I have followed the recipe from one of my old books-Nita mehta cakes and bakes and must say that this recipe is a keeper and is tried and tested by me many times.The addition of walnuts and cinnamon powder complements the soft and juicy bite apple and must say that this was totally delicious.Try this quick and easy apple cake this Christmas.

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Here is how to make danish apple recipe with step by step photos:
Danish Apple Cake Recipe:
yields:8" square cake | Source: Nita Mehta
Prep time: 10 mins | Baking time: 35-40 mins | Total time: 50 mins
Cuisine: International | Category: Baking-Cakes

Ingredients:
3/4 cup(75 gms) All purpose flour
3/4 cup(75 gms) powdered Sugar
1 cup Red Apple,cored and chopped along with peel(from one big apple)
1/4 cup Walnuts
75 ml Oil
2 large Eggs
3/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp Baking powder
a pinch of Baking Soda
a pinch of Salt
1 tsp Vanilla essence

for topping:
1/2 Red Apple,cut into slices along with the peel
1 tbsp Brown sugar
1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
1 tsp melted Butter

Method:

• Grease an 8"square tin with butter/oil and dust it with flour or you can line a parchment paper in the tin.
• Sift flour with baking powder,baking soda,salt and cinnamon powder.

• Separate egg whites and egg yolks.Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt and vanilla essence till stiff.Add sugar in batches and beat well after each addition.
• Put egg yolk one at a time.Beat well.

• Add oil and beat for half a minute.
• Add flour gradually and fold gently with a large wooden spoon.

• Fold 1 cup apples and chopped walnuts(dust the walnuts with flour before adding) into the batter.
• Pour the batter into the prepared tin and evenly arrange the remaining apple slices on the batter.

• Mix a 1 tbsp of brown sugar with 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder and 1 tsp melted powder in a bowl and sprinkle this mixture on the arranged apples in the tin.
• Bake in pre-heated oven at 170 deg C/300 deg F for 35-40 mins.Insert a skewer in the center to check the doneness of the cake.If it comes out clean,remove from oven.

• Let it cool and invert on a rack and cut into pieces and serve.

You can serve a warm/cold custard sprinkled with the cinnamon powder along with the cake.

Notes:

1. You can bake this in two small loaf tins or 1 big loaf tin too.
2. Walnuts add a nice bite in the cake,so do not miss it.
3. The cup I used in the recipe is 1 cup = 200ml.

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