Today I'm going to show you my absolute favorite recipe for heavenly baking enjoyment: This apple cake with cinnamon butter glaze is a poem!
In the cold season I always feel like baking. And what could be better than the smell of fresh apple pie wafting through your home as it bakes? So I don't know anything!
So today I'm going to tell you one of my grandmother's favorite recipes for a super moist apple pie without a base. And we promise: even baking beginners can do it. Because you don't have to prepare a shortcrust pastry base or an apple compote. It couldn't be quicker or easier.
Best Bottomless Apple Pie: Easy Recipe
The baseless apple pie is perfect if you don't have much baking experience or simply don't want a complicated recipe. The large amount of apples makes the cake super juicy and the dough stays nice and fluffy.
You don't have to prepare an extra base, just fill the dough into the baking pan as it is at the end. What looks chaotic before baking turns out to be real cake happiness after baking!
Ingredients:
- 130 g soft butter
- 100g sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 Owner
- 250 g Flour
- 1/2 packet of baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1.5 kg apples
- Springform
For the glaze:
- 5 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Aside from that:
- Springform
- some oil, butter or release spray
Here's how:
1. Open the oven200 °C top/bottom heatPreheat and grease the springform pan well or spray it with release spray. This reliably prevents the cake from baking.
2. Now peel the apples, remove the core and cut into very coarse pieces. You can quarter small apples and cut larger apples into eighths.
3. Now for the dough: First, beat the butter, sugar, vanilla extract and salt vigorously in the food processor or with a hand mixer until the mixture is nice and creamy. Now add the eggs one after the other and stir in each egg for about 1 minute so that the dough becomes nice and light and airy.
4. Then mix the flour with the baking powder and cinnamon and add one tablespoon at a time to the dough.Tipp:To do this, set the food processor or hand mixer to a lower setting. If you stir the flour too long and too hard, the dough can become rubbery when baking.
5. Finally, carefully fold the apple pieces into the dough.Don't be surprised:It seems like there is too little dough for too many apples. But the dough will rise nicely in the oven and spread between the apple pieces.
6. Pour the dough into the mold and place it on thebottom rail for 50-55 minutesbake. If the top of your cake gets too dark, cover it with a piece of aluminum foil for the rest of the baking time.
7. After 45 minutes of baking, take the cake out, now it's time for the icing. To do this, brush it with the melted butter, mix the brown sugar with the cinnamon and sprinkle the sugar-cinnamon mixture over the cake. Then put the glazed apple cake in the oven again for 5-10 minutes.
8. Then turn off the oven, let the hot air escape briefly and let the apple pie cool in the oven for about 10 minutes.
Important:Before you remove the cake from the tin, you should let it cool down at room temperature for another 15-20 minutes.
This is how you can modify the apple pie without a base
The great thing about the baseless apple pie recipe: It can be wonderfully refined. This is how you can give the simple cake a smart touch.
If you love the Christmas flavor, you can, for example, add rum-pickled raisins and almond sticks to the apple pieces. If you want to bake for children, simply leave out the rum with the raisins and add a tablespoon of almond syrup to the dough instead.
The combination of apples and blackberries is great for late summer. Simply add a good handful to the dough. The blackberries give the apple pie a fruity, tart note.
Which apples are best for apple pie?
There are apples that are better suited to apple pie than others. When it comes to apples, a basic distinction is made between table apples and cooking apples. Dessert apples taste best raw, while cooking apples only develop their full flavor when cooked or baked.
The cooking apples, i.e. the types of apples that are perfect for apple pie, include the Boskop, which has a slightly tarter taste, the sweet and sour Jonagold, but also the crisp Cox orange, which also tastes very aromatic.
Tipp:To prevent the apples from turning brown when baking, you can drizzle some lemon juice over the apple pieces and mix well.
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