Farmhouse Apple Cake

Today I'm giving you a wonderful recipe where the main ingredient is the apples. It is really easy and you don't need special instruments or ingredients. Here it goes:

Ingredients:

• 7 tablespoons Butter - recipe said unsalted but I used it with salt and was delicious
• 1/2 cup Whole Milk
• 2 large Eggs
• 5 Golden Delicious Apples
• Juice of 1 Lemon (to avoid the apples getting brown once peeled and cut)
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 2 teaspoons Baking powder
• 1 cup of white Sugar
• 1/2 cup Flour

Preparation Instructions:

1. Put the milk into a cup and add the 7 tablespoons of butter into pieces. Microwave for a minute or two, until the butter is just melted. Set aside to cool.
2. Peel, core and quarter the apples. Slice them into thin slices, 0’5cm thick. Put them in a bowl with lemon juice to avoid them getting brown. Later we will need the apples, but not the lemon juice. Reserve it.
3. Preheat your oven to 200ºC. Butter a spring-form pan. You can also wrap the bottom of the pan with tin foil so it doesn’t leak (depends how liquid it’s the mixture it’s possible that it leaks a little.
4. Beat the eggs and sugar in a large bowl with a wire whisk (I used a fork) until the sugar is dissolved. Stir in the flour, baking powder and vanilla extract and blend thoroughly. Then add the milk-butter mixture and mix it with the rest.
5. Fold in the sliced apples and pour the mixture into the spring-form pan.
6. Place the pan directly on the floor of the oven for 10 minutes and then decrease the oven temperature to 180ºC for about an 40 minutes more. Check it every ten minutes to see if it’s golden brown. When it is, cover it with kitchen foil so it doesn’t “burn”. It should be in the oven a total of 50-55 minutes.
7. When done, place the cake on a cooling rack and leave there to cool enough to handle.
8. After a while run a thin knife around the cake and remove the spring-form ring. Leave some more time to cool as if you cut it when very warm it could “break” and look a bit messy.

When serving you can also add it some vanilla ice-cream and/or cream plus some caramel, to decorate.

Everybody loved it so I highly recommend it if you are looking for some easy and different cake to prepare.