Italian apple cake

                      Italian Apple Cake

Thanks to a friend in Italy, I got a hold of this delish apple cake. It is the best I have had so far. 
I am not a big fan of the german Yeast dough fruit cakes, including the apple cake. This one is nice 
and moist and has plenty of apple bits for every bite. 


This is what you need:

- 2 big or 3 small eggs

- 10-12 TBSP Sugar 

- 12 TBSP Oil

- 12 TBSP Milk

- 1 TSP Vanilla Extract

- 1 TSP Cinnamon 

- around 12-20 TBSP Flour (dough should be still sort of runny from the spoon)

- 7 gr Baking Powder

- 1 pinch of salt

- 2 apples, diced

- 1 Apple finely sliced

This is how you do it:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celcius)

Add the eggs and the sugar into a bowl and whisk it with the kitchen aid or the hand blender until it's nice and creamy and almost white in color. It also will double in volume (about 5-10 min).

Now add the Oil and the milk and stir it well. Add the Vanilla extract and the pinch of salt. Now take it out of the kitchen aid and fold the Flour and Baking Powder with a Spatula in 2 batches under the dough.

Fold in the Cinnamon and the 2 diced apples with the spatula. 

Lay on the bottom of your round baking sheet a layer of waxed paper. Cut off excesses. Do not butter the sides of the baking sheet. The dough needs to be able to rise up and not slip down. Add the dough into the baking sheet. Now layer in a nice pattern the remaining sliced apples.

Place the cake in the oven and bake for 40-45 min or until tooth pick comes out clean.

Let it cool completely before removing from the sheet and dusting it with powdered sugar.

Enjoy und Guten Appetit