You must be knowing by now that I am a band wagon for simple snack cakes, I love to try and experiment with snack cakes. To be honest I had this bad experience with apple in a cake, I must admit that the last time I made an apple upside down cake it was a disaster since I used a spring form pan and the apple juices got spread in the oven. Silly me did not realise this or rather plan this before doing the recipe. That said I seriously loved the mild flavors of apple & cinnamon in this cake that is so well hugged by a soft spongy cake. Impatient me jumped to cut the cake and had the cake falling apart, but I managed to cut few decent slices and here we go ;-) so don't be in a hurry like me. If you are someone who does not like the Fruit/ Plum cakes for Christmas then you can give a go to this simple yet delicious cake, it tastes great the next day.
JEWISH APPLE CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE
Recipe Source - Recipes.com
Prep time - under 10 mins
Bake time - 50-60 minutes for 8" cake and 60-90 mins for 10" large bundt pan
Serves - 10-12 pieces for 8" cake
Ingredients
All purpose flour/ maida - 1 and 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1 and 1/4 teaspoon
Salt - generous pinch
Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup
Eggs, beaten - 2
Orange juice - 1/4 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon
Apples - 2 medium peeled, cored and chopped
Ground cinnamon - 2 teaspoon
Sugar - 2 tablespoons
Method
1. 1. Preheat oven to 350 F/ 175 C. Grease and flour one 8 inch tube pan. Combine the ground cinnamon and 2 teaspoons of the sugar together, chopped apples and set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. Stir in the vegetable oil, beaten eggs, orange juice and vanilla. Mix well.
3. Pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan. Top with 1/2 of the sliced apples and sprinkle with 1/2 of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
4. Pour the remaining batter over the top and layer the remaining sliced apples and cinnamon sugar.Bake at 350 F/ 175 C for 50 to 60 minutes.
5. When a skewar inserted in centre comes clean remove from oven and along with the cake tin place on a cooling rack.
6. After 15 minutes remove the cake from pan. Once the cake completely cools down cut and serve
Cooks Wisdom -
Tip 1
I used an 8" inch tube pan and halfed the original recipe.
Tip 2
Take care not to cut the cake when it is warm, it can tend to break since it has pieces of apple in the center
Tip 3
In case you do not like apples simply skip them and use almonds, chocolate chips or raisins
Tip 4
I used an OTG (Oven toast Grill) to bake this cake hence I baked it at 160 C for 50 minutes. Each oven bakes at a different temperature so make adjustments accordingly
Tip 5
You can use rum extract, almond extract or apple juice, pineapple juice
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