TART APPLE CAKE

By porklion

Ingredients

• Ingredients
• 11 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled, plus more for pan
• 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 3 eggs
• 3 large tart apples, such as Granny Smith, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• Vanilla ice cream, for serving

Details

Servings 8
Adapted from saveur.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 9" springform pan; set aside. In a food processor, pulse 5 tbsp. butter, flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt into pea-size crumbles. Add vanilla and 1 egg; mix until a soft, sticky dough forms. Add to prepared pan, dip your fingers in flour, and press dough evenly into bottom and halfway up the sides of pan. Arrange apple slices in a tight circular pattern, overlapping, and pressing slightly into dough. Bake until apples are tender and dough is almost cooked through, 35-40 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, melt remaining butter in a bowl; whisk in remaining sugar and eggs, plus cinnamon. Remove cake from oven and pour butter mixture evenly over apples. Bake until top is browned and set, 12-15 minutes more. Transfer to a wire rack until cool; remove from pan, cut into slices and serve with vanilla ice cream, if you like.

I made this dessert yesterday and was delighted with it. It is an ideal company dessert as it makes a nice presentation too. Since I don't have a springform pan I lined a regular cake pan with foil leaving an edge to lift the cake from the pan and used a smaller 8" pan to create a deeper cake/tart. To make it a little less fattening (ya right) I eliminated 1 tbs melted butter and also reduced the sugar. Since I used a smaller (hence deeper pan) I baked it longer a well. I posted a pic on my flicker page (user name "Mrpuffy").

It's really delicious! But next time I will make this recipe I will use 2/3 or even less of the sugar in the dough because it's really to sweet and it's stealing the flavour of the filling and butter mixture.