Authentic Irish Apple Cake Recipe

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This is a traditional Irish apple cake, produced throughout the apple harvest season in every farmhouse with its own prized recipe. Tastes great with or without custard sauce!

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CAKE – 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature – 1/2 cup granulated sugar – 2 large eggs – 3 Tbsp whole milk or cream – 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour – 1 tsp baking powder – 1 tsp cinnamon – 1/8 tsp salt – about 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and thinly sliced. Mine weighed a little over a pound after slicing. – confectioner’s sugar for dusting STREUSEL TOPPING – 3/4 cup all purpose flour – 1/4 cup old fashioned rolled oats – 6 Tbsp unsalted cold butter, cut in small piece – 1/2 cup granulated sugar CUSTARD SAUCE – 6 large egg yolk – 6 Tbsp granulated sugar – 1 1/2 cups whole milk ~ you can also use half and half or cream – 1 1/2 tsp vanilla

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Warm the oven up to 350F. Well grease and flour your bundt pan.  

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Instructions

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Combine the zest and sugar by beating or whisking them together.

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In about a minute, beat in the eggs and oil until light and well blended. Add the orange juice and blend on low speed.

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Mix in the baking powder and flour, sifting them in until they are barely mixed.

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The batter will be thin, so pour it into the bundt pan that has been prepared. 

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Step 5

Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted near the centre comes out clean of wet batter. Avoid overbaking.

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Step 6

After the cake has cooled for fifteen minutes on a rack, invert it and release all the sides.

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Allow to cool fully before slicing and sprinkling with powdered sugar.

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Also see

Sicilian Orange Cake Recipe 

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