Our daughter Katie has enjoyed making this simple apple cake recently. The rest of us have enjoyed eating it. She’s made it with both Pristine and Williams Pride apples.
Batter
1-1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup sugar
2 oz unsalted butter
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1/3 cup raisins
3/4 cup walnuts, chopped
Topping
4 medium-large apples, sliced thinly
2 oz butter
1/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Butter a 13″ x 9″ x 2″ baking pan
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut the butter in small chips into the mix and stir it in to make a crumbly mixture.
- Beat the egg, and stir in milk and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir together only until the dry ingredients are thoroughly moistened.
- Spread the batter evenly in a thin layer in the baking pan and sprinkle with raisins and nuts.
- Lay the slices, overlapping, in rows on top of the cake, as in the picture. Use more or fewer apples as needed.
- Melt the butter and brush it over the apples
- Mix the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the apples.
- Cover the entire pan with a cookie sheet or aluminum foil.
- Bake for 35 minutes, removing the cookie sheet or foil for the last 5 minutes.
