Versunkener Apfelkuchen - Sunken Apple Cake

This is a great recipe for beginners, as it is very easy and quick to make.

Ingredients
200 grams butter (unsalted)
200 grams sugar
1 package of vanilla sugar
3 eggs
300 grams flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons milk
4-5 cooking apples (Bramley)


Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
2. Stir together the butter (room temperature), sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
3. Then add the flour, baking powder and milk and mix well.
4. Pour the dough into a greased, round baking tray.
5. Peel and core the apples, cut them into quarters and slightly slice the top of each quarter
6. Bake for 60 minutes

... and feel free to decorate the cake with some icing sugar

Guten Appetit!

The Art of German Kuchen Baking

Hello fellow cake lovers and cookie monsters.

My name is Alicia, I am half German half Spanish and since April 2008 I live in Dublin.
In my last two years in Ireland I managed to get used to the Irish weather, driving on the "wrong" side of the road and to Irish food, however I really miss something very German: Kuchen
At my parents´ house in Germany every afternoon at around 4 o´clock we would gather in the kitchen and have a cup of coffee together with some home made cake (versunkener Apfelkuchen, gedeckter Apfelkuchen, Streuselkuchen, Erdbeerkuchen, Kreppel, Rahmkuchen, Bienenstich, Nussecken, Pflaumenkuchen....and many more).

I won´t have to miss these any longer because I have now started learning my mother´s recipes and sharing the art of German baking (in particular the outcome) with my Irish friends.

I will introduce some of these cake recipes on this site.


Frohes Backen / Happy Baking