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Ingredients
- Streusel:
- 1 cup flour
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 6 tbs (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- Cake:
- 2 medium sized Golden Delicious apples, peeled, halved, cored and cut into 1/8 inch slices
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 1 1/2 cups plus 2 tbs cake flour
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup plus 2 tbs unsalted butter (2 1/4 sticks), room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tbs finely grated lemon peel
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 3 large eggs plus 1 large egg yolk
Preparation
Step 1
For streusel:
Mix first 4 ingredients in medium bowl. Add melted butter and stir with fork until moist clumps form. Do ahead.
For cake:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325°. Butter and flour 10 inch springform pan. Toss apples slices, cinnamon and cloves in medium bowl. Sift flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt into another bowl. Combine butter, powdered sugar and lemon peel in large bowl; scrape in seeds from vanilla bean.
Using electric mixer, beat butter mixture until well blended. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating until well blended after each addition; beat in egg yolk. Add flour mixture and beat just until blended. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan (cake layer will be thin). Slightly overlap apple slices atop batter in concentric circles. Sprinkle streusel evenly over apples (streusel will cover apples).
Bake cake until streusel topping is crisp and tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes. Remove pan sides; cool to lukewarm. Serve lukewarm or at room temperature.