Free Recipe French Apple Cake (Bon A)

Recipe Type: Free Desserts Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 8

Ingredients for French Apple Cake (Bon A) Recipe

1/4 c Unsalted butter; (1/2 stick)
1-3/4 c Sugar
1/3 c Water
3/4 ts Ground cinnamon
1-1/4 lb Granny smith apples;
-(2-large), peel, core,
-thinly slice
1 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
3 lg Egg yolks
2 lg Eggs
2 tb Calvados; applejack or other
-brandy
2 ts Vanilla
1/2 c Unsalted butter; (1-stick)
-melted

French Apple Cake (Bon A) Preparation

Preheat oven to 350degF. Butter 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides. Coat pan with sugar; tap out excess. Melt 1/4 cup butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in 3/4 cup sugar, water and cinnamon and bring to boil. Add apples and cook until apples are just tender, turning frequently, about 15 minutes. Remove apples, using slotted spoon, and arrange decoratively in bottom of pan. Continue boiling liquid in skillet until thick and syrupy, about 4 minutes. Pour over apples. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into small bowl. Whisk remaining 1 cup sugar, egg yolks, eggs, Calvados and vanilla in large bowl to blend. Gently stir in dry ingredients. Fold in 1/2 cup melted butter. Pour batter over apples in pan. Bake until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool cake in pan 5 minutes. Run small sharp knife around side of pan to loosen cake. Turn cake out onto platter. Serve warm or at room temperature. Source to Bon Appetit: Ruth Gardner-Loew: Strasbourg, France McRecipe – PatHanneman – 30 Sep 97. Recipe by: Bon Appetit, October 1992 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #821 by KitPATh <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Sep 30, 1997

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