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Dutch Apple Cake
Ingredients
1/2 Cup Butter
1 Cup Flour
1/2 Cup CSR Caster Sugar
1 Egg Yolk
Grated Rind of 1 Lemon
Drop of Vanilla
6 Large Green Apples
Extra CSR Caster Sugar
3/4 Cup Red Currant or Quince Jelly
Cinnamon
Slivered Blanched Almonds
Method
- Make a dough by rubbing the butter into the flour and mixing in the CSR Caster Sugar, egg yolk, rind and vanilla. With the hands blend the mixture until smooth and then press the dough into the bottom and sides of a 22cm springform pan reserving strips of dough of lattice for the top.
- Peel the apples and slice extremely thin, sprinkling the paper thin slices with CSR Caster Sugar.
- Mix the jelly gently into the apples and fill the shell with the mixture.
- Cover the top with latticework made from strips of leftover dough. Sprinkle the strips with cinnamon and any visible fruit with the almonds.
- Bake in a hot oven 400oF (200oC) for about 1 hour, and cool. Remove the ring of the springform and serve the cake with whipped cream.
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