French Apple Cake
French Apple Cake

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, french apple cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Apple Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. French Apple Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

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