“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” 
Oh, I adore apples. I also adore the apple desserts. All of them . I love baked apples with honey and nuts, I love the strudel, I love apple pancakes, I love apple tarts , apple pies , apple cakes. That’s why I bake them often .The smell of baked apples that surrounds my kitchen brings back sweet memories related to loved ones, to childhood. I wander back in time on the life’s winding streets and get into my grandma’s kitchen where I find a steaming apple pie, just aout of the oven. A warm cozy kitchen, flavors of cinnamon and caramel. A gentle face and an immense joy. The purring of a lazy cat. Beautiful moments that keep coming throug my mind every time I bake something with apples. It happened today too while cooking another delicious apple cake.With walnuts and raisins. Delicious
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 150g butter
- 150g sugar
- 200ml sour cream
- 200g flour
- 50g walnuts
- 3 apples
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 70g raisins
- 3 tbs Amaretto
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tbs brown sugar crystals
- lemon zest
- lemon juice (1 lemon)
- a pinch of salt
Instructions:
- Place the raisins in a bowl with 3 tbs of Amaretto to hydrate
- Grease a removable bottom baking pan with butter and coat it with flour
- Heat the oven to 180° C
- Grind walnuts and mix them with the sugar crystals
- Peel two apples, slice them thin and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent them turning brown
- Mix flour with baking powder, salt and lemon zest
- Whisk butter and sugar, add the eggs one by one, the vanilla extract and then gradually the flour mix one spoon at a time.
- Add the sour cream and whisk gently
- Add apple slices to the batter and pour it into the greased baking pan
- Slice the remaining apple and place the slices on top of the batter
- Add the nuts and sugar mix
- Bake for 60′
It is soft and extremely flavored
The apples and nuts flavors with a hint of almond given by the Amaretto and caramel from the brown sugar crystals blend perfectly and conquer you immediately.
Enjoy!
M-am trezit cu pofta de ceva dulce cu mere si am gasit la tine bunatatea asta atragatoare.
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Pai ai rezolvat problema, Alina. Acum stii ce sa faci
Te pup
Da, am admirat-o si eu la fete, cred ca-i foarte buna! Iar de poze ce sa zic, devii tot mai profi!
Multumesc draga mea. Am facut si varianta cu prune in toamna. Delicioasa ;). Pupici
Și mie îmi plac dulciurile cu mere.
Am vazut eu ca ai o multime de bunatati pe blog cu mere, Alinuta. Pupici
Diana,imi plac la nebunie toate deserturile care sunt facute cu mere.Imi imaginez mirosul bucatariei tale cand aveai prajitura la coptor…si gustul….
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Si mie imi plac deserturile cu mere iar prajitura asta este extraordinara. Mie mi-a ramas gandul la studelul tau
Te pup, draga mea.