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Grandma's Apple Cake

A cross between and Apple Pie and a Apple Cobbler, as made by my grandmother

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Apple
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 8 people

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

  1. Core, Peel and then chop the apples to 1in x 1in squares

  2. Put Apples in a Pot

  3. Add Apple Cider and Lemon Juice

  4. Heat, stirring occasionally until cider boils then turn down. Let the Apples cook a little until they soften slightly but don't brown

  5. Take off heat, add sugar and stir while they cool

Making the Dough

  1. Into a bowl, add Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, 1/2 cup sugar

  2. Grade the outside of the lemon into the bowl, juice the rest of the lemon

  3. Grate the Frozen butter or small cold butter cubes and add them to the dough (cold butter is important here)

  4. In another bowl, mix eggs, 2 Tsp Lemon Juice (from lemon) and mix

  5. Now add liquids to the dry ingredients and mix. The dough will slowly come together.

  6. Knead dough until it forms a smooth ball.

Put Cake Together

  1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.

  2. 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.

  3. Now add the cool apples into the pan

  4. Take the 1/3rd portion of dough, roll out and cut strips and create the weave for the top.

  5. Sprinkle with sugar on top

  6. Bake for an hour until crust is golden brown