We lost this recipie for a number of years as we couldn’t recreate the exact memory. A little more experience and time has allowed me to find the flaw from the recipie as we understood it. Now we have it. Its a cross between a pie and a cobbler and is frankly just amazing. Served with Ice Cream or Whipped Cream. Its outstanding. Has the fruit experience of a pie but with more dough texture as opposed to crust. Just fantastic.
Grandma’s Apple Cake
A cross between and Apple Pie and a Apple Cobbler, as made by my grandmother
Ingredients
Apple Filling
- 3 Lbs Apples Cored, Peeled, and Cut
- 1/2 cup Apple Cider (or Apple Juice)
- Cinnamon To Taste
- 1 TBSP Lemon Juice
- 1/4 cup sugar
Dough
- 3 Cups Flour 474 grams
- 1/2 cup sugar 110g
- 1/2 cup butter Frozen and grated is best (but cold and chopped is ok)
- 3 eggs
- 2 1/2 TBSP Baking powder 30g
- 1 Lemon
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
Prepare the Apples
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Core, Peel and then chop the apples to 1in x 1in squares
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Put Apples in a Pot
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Add Apple Cider and Lemon Juice
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Heat, stirring occasionally until cider boils then turn down. Let the Apples cook a little until they soften slightly but don't brown
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Take off heat, add sugar and stir while they cool
Making the Dough
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Into a bowl, add Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, 1/2 cup sugar
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Grade the outside of the lemon into the bowl, juice the rest of the lemon
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Grate the Frozen butter or small cold butter cubes and add them to the dough (cold butter is important here)
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In another bowl, mix eggs, 2 Tsp Lemon Juice (from lemon) and mix
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Now add liquids to the dry ingredients and mix. The dough will slowly come together.
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Knead dough until it forms a smooth ball.
Put Cake Together
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Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.
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Divide the dough into 1/3 and 2/3rds. Roll the 2/3 piece out into a smooth flat shape the size of the pan. Take your pan and grease it and then put the dough into the pan.
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Now add the cool apples into the pan
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Take the 1/3rd portion of dough, roll out and cut strips and create the weave for the top.
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Sprinkle with sugar on top
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Bake for an hour until crust is golden brown
