Italian applecake

Apples!

I confess, this morning when i peeled and cut the apples i got from the garden, i sighed. And decided to use to of the Delcorfs new harvest i bought on the market. Because they are bigger.

The recipe i used is from smulweb.nl, a Dutch cooking website. I did do a search on duckduckgo.com for the word appeltaart, trying to find a good recipe for the Dutch appeltaart. And there i found this Italian applecake recipe. Hmm.

Ingredients

• 150 gram butter
• 150 gram sugar ( i used light brown sugar)
• 4 eggs (i only had three, i added soaked lineseed for the fourth)
• 500 gram apples
• 150 gram flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 lemon, the juice and the rind
• a bit of salt
• 1 courgette, rasped (because i have so many and this cake is for the garden)

Method

• preheat your oven to 180 ºC
• melt the butter on a low fire, keep an eye on this and put out the fire once the butter is completely melted
• peel the apples, slice them finely
• rasp the courgette over the apples
• rasp your lemon
• squeeze your lemon and put it over the apple slices
• put the sugar, salt, lemon peel and four eggs in a bowl, whisk this till it is foamy
• add the melted butter to the apples
• add the flour and the baking powder to the apples and mix
• add the apples and flour and butter to the egg mixture and mix good
• cover a 26 cm wide round springform with butter and add a spoon of flour to it and swirl it around
• put the dough in the springform
• bake for 40 to 50 minutes in the oven
• put the oven out once it is done and leave the cake inside for five minutes

Enjoy!