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 pan 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.
Apple Walnut Cake
2 cups diced peeled Jonagold apples
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, cooled
1 large egg
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
1/2 cup dark raisins
Mise en place ~ Gather ingredients
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Lightly butter/flour 8x8x2-inch baking pan, or use parchment on bottom for easy removal.
Sift flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
Mix sugar, butter and beaten egg in large bowl to blend, add diced apples.
Fold in the dry ingredient. Add chopped walnuts, raisins; mix only to combined. 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. Remove when cake has cooled.
So thank you Robin at achowlife. Thank you Ina Garten, aka Barefoot Contessa.
* I think if you were teaching a child or even a big child to bake this should go on “the list.”
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