Juicy apple crumble cake

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Recipe from: Katinka Ehret

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Category: Desserts & baked goods

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Published on: 10 September 2019

I love this late summer season as we are so richly blessed by our garden. In addition to all kinds of herbs, beetroot, beans, carrots, courgettes and pumpkins, there is also a great abundance of delicious apples.

I picked apples yesterday and picked them up.
Oh, there are already 20 more ripe ones 🙂

And so the apple harvest can also be creatively utilised and used in all kinds of recipes. And the sweet version is the classic crumble cake.

The recipe works well with vegan butter

Bake a cake without butter and egg? Sure, you can! The Alsan brand has a great vegan butter alternative and you don't really need eggs in your cake anyway. You can leave them out or, if necessary for the binding, simply substitute them. In this recipe, flour, butter and sugar make a great batter and crumble mixture.

Preparation time: approx. 30min

Baking time: approx. 60 min

Ingredients for a 28 springform tin

For the filling:

10 large apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 tbsp Alsan
80 ml apple juice

For the base and the crumble:

500 g spelt flour type 630
200 g sugar
2 tsp baking powder
400 g Alsan, cold, in pieces

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180°C fan-assisted and coat the springform tin with Alsan.

Melt the tablespoon of Alsan in a large, deep pan over a medium heat. Stir in the apple pieces and a splash of apple juice. Use very little juice so that the cake base doesn't get too soggy. Leave to cook for a few minutes, stirring occasionally. Then remove from the heat and set aside to cool.

Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Now add the Alsan to the dry mixture, mix together and rub until crumbly, resulting in coarse crumbles.

Spread half of the crumble mix over the base of the prepared springform tin, press down firmly and also spread around the sides of the tin (approx. 1-2 cm high). Then place in the preheated oven and bake for 5 minutes. This pre-baking prevents the base from becoming soggy when it is later filled.

Now take the springform pan out of the oven and spread the apple slices over it. Sprinkle the rest of the crumble mix evenly over the top.

Bake the cake for about an hour until golden brown and then remove from the oven. Leave to cool completely before removing from the springform tin.

Savour the sweet dream!

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