🍎🍏 Grandma’s Most Delicious Apple Pie – Ready in 5 Minutes! 🍰
This simple homemade apple cake is soft, juicy and full of warm apple-cinnamon flavor. With a light fluffy batter, fresh apples and a delicious caramelized topping, it’s the kind of cake that disappears quickly from the table.
Perfect with coffee, for family gatherings or when you want a quick and easy dessert with apples. One bite and everyone will ask for the recipe! ☕✨
📌 Ingredients
• 3 eggs 🥚🥚🥚
• A pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar or vanilla extract
• ⅔ cup sugar (120 g)
• 100 ml sunflower oil
• ½ cup milk (120 ml)
• 1½ cups flour (220 g)
• 1 tbsp baking powder (10 g)
• Zest of 1 lemon 🍋
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
For the topping:
• 2 apples 🍎
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
Caramel glaze:
• 40 g butter
• 2 tbsp brown sugar (25 g)
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
For decoration:
• 1 tsp powdered sugar
👩🍳 Preparation
1️⃣ In a bowl add eggs, salt, vanilla and sugar. Beat with a mixer for 2–3 minutes until light and creamy.
2️⃣ Add sunflower oil and milk, then mix well.
3️⃣ Add flour in two stages together with baking powder, mixing until the batter becomes smooth and lump-free.
4️⃣ Stir in lemon zest and lemon juice for fresh flavor.
5️⃣ Pour the batter into a greased 20 cm (8 inch) springform pan lined with baking paper.
6️⃣ Peel and slice the apples, arrange them on top of the batter, then sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
7️⃣ Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (356°F) for 40–45 minutes.
🍯 Caramel Lemon Glaze
1️⃣ Melt butter, brown sugar and lemon juice together in a small pan.
2️⃣ Pour the mixture over the baked cake.
3️⃣ Return the cake to the oven and bake 10 more minutes at 180°C so the top becomes lightly caramelized.
✨ Finish
Sprinkle with powdered sugar, slice and enjoy while slightly warm or fully cooled.
💡 Tip:
Serve with tea or coffee – the apples, cinnamon and lemon aroma make this cake incredibly comforting.
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