Author: Susan Murray, www.awomancooksinasheville.com
Ingredients
1cflour
1tspbaking powder
¼tspcinnamon
¼tspsalt
3tbsbuttermelted
½cmilk
3eggs
2/3csugar
½tspvanilla
2 ½lbsapples
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9” loaf pan by spraying lightly with oil. Line the bottoms and sides with a sheet of parchment paper, leaving some paper hanging over the sides. Spray the paper with baking spray.
Peel and thinly slice the apples. Place them in a medium to large bowl.
Place the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl and stir well to mix.
In the bowl of your mixer whisk together the sugar and eggs until they are thick and pale yellow in color, 2-3 minutes.
Whisk in half of the flour until just mixed in. Add the milk and butter, stir it in and then finish with the rest of the flour. Finally stir in the vanilla.
Pour the batter into the bowl with the apples and stir the batter into the apples. Separate any apples that are sticking together, making sure each slice gets coated with batter.
Either turn all of the apples and batter into your prepared pan or place them in by hand for a finer finish. If placing by hand, line the apples up so that the flat edges of the slices are against the sides of the pan. Reserve 20-30 slices to make a top layer in which the apples are shingled. Pour any remaining batter in the pan over the top of the apples.
Press down lightly on the apples to distribute them evenly and drop the pan lightly to fill any pockets.
Bake for 60-65 minutes until the cake is risen and a tester comes out clean.
Once baked, remove from the oven and place on a wire rack. Use a knife to separate the cake from the sides of the pan. Cool completely before removing from the pan.
To remove, lift the cake out with the sides of the parchment paper. Remove paper and serve.
Recipe Notes
Note: The cake will be different depending on how thickly you cut the apples. A very thin cut (1/4”) will make the apples almost completely disappear. A thicker cut (1/2”) will show more layers in each slice.