There are cakes whose flavor or aroma takes you back to your childhood. East apple-based sponge cake that they did to me so many times when I was a child is an example. It is a classic sponge cake, ideal to accompany coffee in the afternoon or serve as dessert in summer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
The peculiarity of this sponge cake is its caramelized apple base. A caramelized apple to which I could not avoid adding a pinch of cinnamon, you know what I like! As for the cake, it is a soft and fluffy cake that should have risen better than it has. You just have to take a picture ...
Doing so will be very easy and it is one of those cakes whose quantities will not be difficult to forget, since it contains the same amount of flour, sugar, butter and egg. Hence, it is popularly known as four-quarter cake. The quantities are calculated for a 15-centimeter mold but you only have to double the quantities if you want to prepare a larger one. Enjoy it!
The recipe
- 1 pippin apple
- 1-2 tablespoons of brown sugar
- A pinch of cinnamon
- 135 g. Of flour
- 135 g. of sugar
- 135 g. butter at room temperature
- 135 g. egg (2 XL eggs)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of chemical yeast
- We line the base of a mold 15 cm. with baking paper and grease the walls.
- We peel and cut the apple into thin segments and place them in a pan. We add the sugar and caramelize them.
- When the apple is tender, remove from heat, mix with a little cinnamon and we spread the apples in the bottom of the mold.
- Before we get to the dough preheat the oven to 180ºC and we sift the flour together with the chemical impeller.
- To make the dough we beat the butter in a bowl with the sugar until a smooth cream is obtained.
- Now, we add the eggs and we beat again until they are integrated.
- To finish we incorporate the flour with the chemical yeast making enveloping movements with a spatula or wooden spoon.
- We pour the mixture over the apples and bake approximately 45 minutes or until the center of the cake with a toothpick comes out clean. I made the mistake of opening it ahead of time, hence it fell off.
- We remove the cake from the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes to unmold and Let cool on a rack.