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Grandma's apple cake
Photo: David Holifield

Grandma's apple cake

15 ingredients Serves 8 openrecipes
Grandma's apple cake

A classic one here. A simple, fuss free, easy apple cake. Basically you just need to stir the ingredients together and pop some apples on top. You can dust it with vanilla icing sugar when it has cooled down if you like.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

969
Calories
29g
Protein
27g
Fat
153g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Apple 1 medium (182g) 95
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Pastry not in our table 0
Topping not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • for the pastry
  • 200 g flour
  • 50 g cornflour
  • 2 eggs
  • the juice and the zest of one organic lemon
  • 2 tsp of raising agent
  • 125 g sugar
  • 120 g butter
  • a pinch of salt
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • for the topping
  • 3 apples
  • 2 tbsp apricot jam
  • 1 tbsp hot water

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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