French Apple Cake. With chunks of sweet apples nestled in a tender and buttery rum cake, this French apple cake is the essence of simplicity. This traditional French cake is the definition of simplicity. It starts with a rum-based cake batter, which is then loaded up with sweet apple chunks to ensure every bite includes a bite of apple goodness.
The recipe begins by selecting your apple variety for this cake: choose apples well-suited for baking such as Fiji, Honeycrisp, Mutsu, Jonagold or Braeburn.
This French Apple Cake is super easy, can be made very quickly, and transforms into a fancy cake perfect for a dinner party or special occasion.
Plus, all the ingredients are easy to find.
To make French Apple Cake you need 11 ingredients and just 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients
- Prepare of Unsalted Butter, 115g + More For Greasing.
- Prepare of Bleached All Purpose Flour,.
- You need of Baking Powder,.
- You need of Sea Salt,.
- It's of Eggs Room Temperature,.
- Prepare of Granulated Sugar,.
- You need of Dark Muscovado Sugar,.
- It's of Brandy,.
- Prepare of Pure Vanilla Paste,.
- It's of Granny Smith Apples Peeled Cored Diced,.
- It's of Red Gala Apples Cored Diced,.
French Apple Cake Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Super yummy cake made using a buttery rum flavoured cake batter and fresh apples. Both of them merged together to create this amazing cake. French apple cake is a classic French dessert that is more of a custard-like cake.
French Apple Cake method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius or 350 fahrenheit. Grease the cake pan generously with butter and set aside. In a skillet over medium low heat, add butter..
- Swirl to melt the butter gently. Once melted, continue cooking until butter start to brown. *You can actually see that the milk starts to separated and the milk solids start to caramelize.*.
- Remove from heat. Pour into a bowl thru' a coffee filter over a fine strainer. Discard any residue. Reserve a few TBSP for serving (optional)..
- Measure the melted butter again. Add water if necessary to retain the weight as 115g. Set aside to cool to room temperature. In a large mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder and salt..
- Mix to combine well. In another large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer, whisk eggs until foamy. Add in sugar and continue whisking until the sugar has dissolved. Add in brandy and vanilla paste..
- Give it a final whisk. Add in half of the flour mixture and half of the melted butter. Using a spatula, fold to combine well making sure no large lumps. Add in the remaining half of the flour mixture and melted butter..
- Fold to combine well. Make sure no large lumps. *You can pass the batter thru a fine strainer just to make sure.* Add in the apples..
- Mix to coat the apples well with the batter. Transfer into the cake pan. Wack into the oven and bake for about 50 mins to an hr. Or until the cake is browned and if you insert a skewer into the cake, it comes out clean..
- Keep an eye on the cake, as different ovens may varies and the cake can turn from being browned to burnt very fast.* Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely. Slice and serve with apricot compote, vanilla bean ice cream and beurre noisette (browned butter)..
- To make the apricot compote, place 500g of apricots (fresh, washed, halved and pitted) in a medium sauce pot. Add 1/4 cup of water and about 1/4 cup of granulated sugar (adjust to preference). Add in a stick of cinnamon and 3 cloves. Stir to combine well and until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to a slow simmer. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for 5 to 10 mins..
It is filled with apples and blended with just enough binding ingredients to hold this cake together. This easy French Apple Cake has just enough batter to hold all of the apples together. The cake is one of the softest we've ever had with an almost custard like texture and a sugary, crunchy top. This simple French apple cake is like a crustless pie with a crunchy topping. French Apple Cake is light, fluffy and packed with tender chunks of apple.