Apple cake
Here is the classic apple cake with its rich smell filling the whole house, great for breakfast or snack!
Instructions
- Peel 2 apples and cut them into cubes, sprinkle with cinnamon and the juice of half a lemon and put apart
- Cut the other 3/4 apples in slices and sprinkle them with the juice of the other half of lemon and put a part This allows them not to oxidize and turn dark (they will be used for decoration).
- Beat the two eggs and the sugar with an electric mixer for a few minutes at medium speed
- Add the soft butter (not cold from fridge) (You should leave the butter for 15 min. outside the fridge or put it for a few seconds in the microwave)
- Continue beating
- Add the grated lemon peel
- Add the milk
- Add the flour, cornstarch, a pinch of salt and cinnamon
- Finally, add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and the diced apples left aside at the beginning Mix everything with a wooden spoon to make it all homogeneous
- Pour it into a cake pan (24 cm) previously greased with butter and dusted with flour (in this way it won’t stick)
- Heat the oven on static mode at 180 °C (356 °F)
- With the sliced apples, form a circle starting from the outside edge and gradually complete the rose decoration
- Sprinkle the surface with granulated sugar and cinnamon
- Bake for 45-50 min until the surface is golden Once taken out of the oven, let it cool down and then sprinkle with powdered sugar
Create a glaze that makes it shiny
- mix 125 gr of water, 50 gr of sugar and 8 gr of cornstarch in a small pot
- heat until boiling
- brush the gelatin that you have made on the surface
