Apple Walnut Cake – Let Me Count The Ways
Ina Garten said you should learn how to make 10 dishes and learn to make them 3 different ways. You then have a repertoire of 30 dishes. So what to do with apples? I am always in search of easy but delicious, I think this cake fits all of the criteria so this goes into the repertoire for apples. This cake is not huge in size, nor multilayered, but it is huge in flavor, easy to make, quick assembly, and a relatively short baking time. The flavor gets better in time if it last that long.
The recipe calls for and 8×8 square, I made mine in a 9 inch springform pan. I think it presents well. The only thing missing was some vanilla ice cream. That is on my bucket list and you will be reading about that soon, or at least that is my intent. Well, it is also missing my beautiful cake platter that is now in the trashcan. (Does anyone know how many splintered pieces a platter can break into?) I will be picking glass splinters the rest of my days. But this cake makes you forget all that.
I bumped into this recipe at A Chow Life while trying to find something to do with apples. Here is the big payoff.
This is a wonderful find. Easy and delicious.
- 2 cups diced peeled Jonagold apples
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, cooled
- 1 large egg
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- ½ cup dark raisins
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Butter and flour 8x8x2-inch baking pan. (I used a springform pan.)
- Mix diced apples, sugar, butter and egg in large bowl to blend.
- Sift flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt over.
- Add chopped walnuts, raisins; mix thoroughly.
- Transfer mixture to prepared pan.
- Bake until cake is brown and crusty on top and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
- Cool cake in pan on rack.
Thank you Ina. I think I am on the right track. Thank you A Chow Life for an easy and delicious recipe.
I am taking it to a party at Susan’s at Between Naps On The Porch
and also to Michael’s at Rattlebridge Farm
and Paula’s at Call Me PMc
Susan (Between Naps on the Porch) says
Madonna, welcome to Blogland! You’ve got some wonderful recipes on your blog…I’m drooling with each picture! I found a plugin recently called Easy Recipe. It lets you add a printable recipe to each post. I wish I had known about it long ago. I’ve been going back and trying to add it to my old recipe posts. I paid for their upgraded version called Easy Recipe Plus.
Ms. Lemon says
Susan, Thank you for the kind words. I actually have that plugin installed. For some reason when I edited this recipe, it was missed.
Tammy @ A Walk in the Countryside says
Looks delicious! So sorry about your cake plate! Thanks for sharing!
Ms. Lemon says
Thank you so much for stopping by. I do miss the plate, but maybe for Christmas someone will remember.
The Café Sucré Farine says
Hello! So happy to have found you! You have a lovely blog, love that top photo! And your apple cake sounds just wonderful – I’m a huge sucker for anything apple, especially warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, YUM!
Ms. Lemon says
Thank you for visiting. You are so kind. I am in love with your cake you posted today. Tell Scott to be sure to take a photo of the inside so we can all drool.
Paula says
I love cake, I love cake!! this looks fantastic, pinned! Thanks for joining us at Saturday Dishes ~ Paula