French Apple Sponge Cake
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Dessert and Sweets, French, featured_cakes, French Apple Sponge Cake , Family Food, Desserts, Sweets,
Ingredients
- 170g Butter
- 4 Eggs
- 170g Icing sugar
- 60g Apricots jam
- 165g Flour
- ½ packet Baking powder
- at least 4 Apples (Granny)
- 4 tablespoons Calvados (apple liqueur)
Method
- Peel the apples and remove the hearts
Cut them into cubes.
Put the butter, the icing sugar, the calvados and the jam into a big bowl. Beat together with a wooden spoon and add the eggs one by one.
Add the flour, the baking powder and the apples. Beat the mixture.
let the dough stand 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 210°C.
Grease and line the base of a rectangular cake tin.
Put mixture in the cake tin.
Bake for about 5 minutes at 210°C and then 40 minutes at 150°C.
Take out of the oven and leave to cool before removing form the tin.
This cake is great served with a generous spoon of creme fraiche.
Recent Comments Add your comment
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This sounds delicious just concerned about amount of baking powder how much is half a packet?
by Jade on Wed Feb 4 2009 reply to this comment
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Hi Jade, In France we have baking powder in small packet. 1/2 packet corresponds to 2 tsps.
Charlotteby Charlottev on Wed Feb 4 2009 reply to this comment
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Thanks I am going to make tonight will let you know how I go on
by Jade on Wed Feb 4 2009 reply to this comment
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You should also put some brown sugar and vanilla extract on the apples pieces before adding them to the mixture!
by Charlottev on Wed Feb 4 2009 reply to this comment
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This was wonderful! I was surprised how well the calvados made its presence felt. I'm going to try adapting it with no alcohol and perhaps with other fruit liqueurs brought back from holidays.
It's certainly going to become one of my tried and trusted favourites so thank you very much.by grannymem on Sun Oct 25 2009 reply to this comment
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I loved it and surprisingly so did my wife (she doesn't usually like apples in things)
She asked if I would make it a regular in my repertoire. I am chief cook and bottle washer as my wife is wheelchair bound.
Was it supposed to be a bit puddingy?by Jimmer on Mon Nov 16 2009 reply to this comment
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The famous French Apple Sponge Cake that my grandmother used to make!