One of my favorite desserts that Aunt Kate taught me how
to make is the Irish Apple Cake. Can you say YUM YUM? When she made it she said
that back in Ireland her mother used to pour custard syrup over the top, but on
the day she made it for me, she used a cream cheese vanilla frosting mixture
over top. Boy that brought this cake over the top in my copybook for sure. It
was delicious!
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
⅛ tsp salt
⅛ tsp ground cloves
⅛ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
1 stick (½ cup) butter
¾ cup sugar
4 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced into thin wedges
2 large eggs
¼ cup milk
2 Tbsp granulated sugar for topping
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Spray 8 or 9″ round, spring-form baking pan with cooking
spray
Place flour, baking powder, salt, cloves, nutmeg and
cinnamon in a food processor. Pulse a few times until well mixed.
Add butter into dry mixture. Pulse mixture a few times until
it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Add ¾ cup sugar and pulse until mixed through.
Remove the mixture to a large bowl.
Add apples and toss in the flour mixture until apples are
well coated.
In a separate small bowl, beat eggs and milk. Add to
apple/flour mixture.
Toss and stir well to fully moisten the flour. It should
result in a very sticky dough.
Transfer to the prepared pan.
Flatten and smooth top surface with wet hands. It makes it
much easier.
Sprinkle with remaining sugar.
Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until the toothpick test is clean.
Cool on wire rack.
Serve.
Elizabeth Kilbride is a Writer and Editor with forty
years of experience in writing with 12 of those years in the online content
sphere. Author of 5 books and a Graduate with an Associate of Arts from Phoenix
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