Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french apple cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Your recipe is the clear winner. French Apple Cake is really a lot of apple with a little bit of batter joining the apples together, baked till tender then a sugary, butter topping finishes off the cake. It's more of a crustless tart than a cake, and perfect for serving after a hearty meal. This French Apple Cake recipe is from Patricia Wells, an American cookbook author and teacher, who has lived in Paris for years.

French Apple Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. French Apple Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook french apple cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make French Apple Cake:

1. Prepare Unsalted Butter, 115g + More For Greasing
2. Get 110 g Bleached All Purpose Flour,
3. Get 1 TSP Baking Powder,
4. Make ready Pinch Sea Salt,
5. Take 2 Eggs Room Temperature,
6. Get 60 g Granulated Sugar,
7. Make ready 60 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
8. Prepare 3 TBSP Brandy,
9. Prepare 1 TSP Pure Vanilla Paste,
10. Make ready 2 Granny Smith Apples Peeled Cored Diced,
11. Make ready 3 Red Gala Apples Cored Diced,

Beat the eggs until foamy then add the sugar, beating all the time. This recipe is inspired by Dorie Greenspan's popular apple cake from her cookbook Around My French Table. She encourages bakers to use different kinds of apples in the cake, and I encourage you to do the same here. My personal favorite baking apples are Jonagold, Pink Lady, Honeycrisp, and Fuji, which all lend a sweet flavor and hold their shape nicely in the oven.

Steps to make French Apple Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius or 350 fahrenheit. - - Grease the cake pan generously with butter and set aside. - - In a skillet over medium low heat, add butter.
2. Swirl to melt the butter gently. - - Once melted, continue cooking until butter start to brown. - - You can actually see that the milk starts to separated and the milk solids start to caramelize.
3. Remove from heat. - - Pour into a bowl thru' a coffee filter over a fine strainer. - - Discard any residue. - - Reserve a few TBSP for serving (optional).
4. Measure the melted butter again. - - Add water if necessary to retain the weight as 115g. - - Set aside to cool to room temperature. - - In a large mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder and salt.
5. Mix to combine well. - - In another large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer, whisk eggs until foamy. - - Add in sugar and continue whisking until the sugar has dissolved. - - Add in brandy and vanilla paste.
6. Give it a final whisk. - - Add in half of the flour mixture and half of the melted butter. - - Using a spatula, fold to combine well making sure no large lumps. - - Add in the remaining half of the flour mixture and melted butter.
7. Fold to combine well. - - Make sure no large lumps. - - You can pass the batter thru a fine strainer just to make sure. - - Add in the apples.
8. Mix to coat the apples well with the batter. - - Transfer into the cake pan. - - Wack into the oven and bake for about 50 mins to an hr. - - Or until the cake is browned and if you insert a skewer into the cake, it comes out clean.
9. Keep an eye on the cake, as different ovens may varies and the cake can turn from being browned to burnt very fast.* - - Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely. - - Slice and serve with apricot compote, vanilla bean ice cream and beurre noisette (browned butter).
10. To make the apricot compote, place 500g of apricots (fresh, washed, halved and pitted) in a medium sauce pot. Add 1/4 cup of water and about 1/4 cup of granulated sugar (adjust to preference). Add in a stick of cinnamon and 3 cloves. Stir to combine well and until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to a slow simmer. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for 5 to 10 mins.

She encourages bakers to use different kinds of apples in the cake, and I encourage you to do the same here. My personal favorite baking apples are Jonagold, Pink Lady, Honeycrisp, and Fuji, which all lend a sweet flavor and hold their shape nicely in the oven. Our French Apple Cake is an authentic easy and moist French family recipe from my grandmother's side, who hailed from Normandy. If you like homemade apple cake recipes with fresh apples, check out the German apple cake too! This French Apple Cake can be served in many different ways; either warm or cool!

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