Easy Apple Cake
A super simple, easy-to-throw-together apple cake. The cake base uses just eight basic ingredients and one bowl to make! Loaded with fresh apples (no peel!) and cinnamon, this baby will be ready and out of the oven in under an hour!
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Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs (room temperature)
- 2/3 cup (149 g) good-quality extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon (4 g) almond extract
- 1½ teaspoons (8 g) baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon (6 g) sea salt
- 12/3 cups (225 g) all-purpose flour (how to measure flour)
To Garnish
- 2 medium apples (cored and cut into thin slices (about 388 g))
- ¼ cup (28 g) sliced almonds
- 1 tablespoon (14 g) fresh lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons (36 g) granulated sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF (177ºC). Grease a 9-inch (23-cm) round cake pan and line with parchment paper, greasing the parchment paper as well.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and eggs until thick and frothy, about 2 minutes. Add in the olive oil, almond extract, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk for 1 minute more. Add in the flour and mix until just combined.
- Pour into the prepared baking dish. Starting on the outside of the pan, lay the apple slices one next to the other, slightly overlapping, and work your way to the middle. Sprinkle the almond slices evenly over the top, drizzle the lemon juice and then sprinkle the cinnamon (do this from up high, pinching some between your thumb and index finger). If you find dusting the cake in cinnamon challenging, consider combining it with the sugar first and then sprinkling over the top. Finally, dust the top with sugar and bake in the center of the oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until it’s puffed, lightly bronzed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with some crumbs but no wet batter. Let cool on a rack for 20 minutes before taking out of the pan to finish cooling on a rack. Serve at room temperature.
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SUBSITUTIONS
*Suggested oils for the cake: a good quality olive oil, sunflower seed oil...some flavor will come through, so make sure it tastes good before putting it in your cake!
*Feel free to omit the almond extract and almonds. Add in an equal bit of vanilla extract if omitting.
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