Mexican Dessert Recipes
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Easy Apple Cake Recipe
This delicious fresh apple cake recipe is really flavorful and it is beautiful served warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. You can serve some caramel ice cream syrup or homemade dulce de leche over it if you want to. If you do not have an eight inch cake pan, you can use a nine inch one but the cooking time will be less.
This fresh apple cake recipe is not difficult to make and you can either use cooking apples or tart apples. Granny Smith apples would be fine. The combination of apples and cinnamon is a classic one and cinnamon brings out the flavor of the apples amazingly. This delicious cake makes a wonderful dessert for any occasion and the cinnamon is reminiscent of many other sweet Mexican recipes.
If you are looking for an easy apple cake recipe, this one is highly recommended. The resulting cake is moist and light and the preparation is fairly straightforward. Everyone in the family will love this homemade apple cake recipe and it is nice enough to serve to guests too.
Cinnamon Apple Cake
Ingredients -
1 cup all purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
⅔ cup white sugar
½ stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup peeled, chopped apple
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup buttermilk
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus extra for sprinkling
Light brown sugar, for sprinkling
Fresh mint, for garnish (optional)
Cinnamon sticks, for garnish (optional)
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Grease and flour an 8 inch round cake pan.
Mix together the baking soda, cinnamon, flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
In another bowl beat the sugar and butter for a couple of minutes until fluffy and pale.
Add the egg and vanilla and beat well.
Beat in about a third of the flour mixture, and then add half the buttermilk.
Beat in some more of the flour mixture, then the rest of the buttermilk.
Beat in the last of the flour mixture.
Transfer the batter into the prepared cake pan and use a spatula to smooth the top.
Scatter the chopped apple over the cake and sprinkle the brown sugar over it.
Sprinkle some ground cinnamon on top of the apple cake and bake it for about half an hour or until the top of the cake is golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
Let the cake cool for 10 minutes in the pan, and then unmold it on to a wire rack.
Garnish with the fresh mint and cinnamon sticks, if you like, and serve with whipped cream or ice cream and perhaps some dulce de leche.
(Serves 8)
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This flavorful and moist fresh apple cake recipe is a real winner if you are looking for something delicious and gently spiced. The cinnamon and apple are a perfect pairing and the other ingredients balance out the flavor and texture of this gorgeous cake. You can serve an easy apple cake at any occasion or at any time of the year. You might like to serve whipped cream or ice cream with this apple cake recipe. Dulce de leche flavored ice cream syrup would be a good accompaniment for this apple cake and homemade dulce de leche would be even better.
