Irish Apple Cake
This lightly sweet apple cake combines spicy apple chunks between two doughy layers, sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar. It can be served with a caramel or custard sauce, but it is delicious on its own. Adapted recipe from Irish Traditional Cooking.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 Granny Smith Apples, peeled and chopped
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 2/3 Cup Sugar
- 8 Tablespoons Butter, Chilled and Cut/Grated
- 1 Egg
- ½ Cup Milk
- 2 Teaspoons Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
Instructions
- Peel and chop apples into chunks. You could do slices if you prefer.
- Toss apples with cinnamon and sugar to coat. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350* and spray springform pan or cake pan with cooking spray.
- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and sugar.
- Cut in butter using a pastry blender or two knives. until pieces are no larger than pea sized.
- In a separate bowl, mix egg and milk together.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
- Mix until just combined.
- Pat one half of mixture into prepared baking dish.
- Spread apple cinnamon sugar mixture over the dough.
- Cover apples with remaining dough. It is ok if this is imperfect looking.
- Bake for 40 minutes. Cake will be lightly brown on the top.
- Remove and let cool.
- Right before serving, dust with confectioner’s sugar.