======Apple Cake======

We used to make an [[apple]] cake pretty often when I lived in [[Italy]], so I've been trying to recreate the recipe with some help from [[duckduckgo]]. Even easier to make that a [[carrot_cake|carrot cake]].

===== Ingredients =====

  * 3–4 apples.
  * 3 eggs.
  * 140g castor sugar.
  * 120ml olive oil.
  * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
  * 200g self-raising flour.
  * Small pinch of salt.

===== Method =====

  - Preheat oven to 180℃.
  - Whisk the eggs and sugar together, till lightened.
  - Add oil and vanilla.
  - Slowly mix in flour, then salt and any other spices you want.
  - Dice half the apples and add.
  - Pour into lined cake tin.
  - Slice (maybe 3–4mm) the rest of the apple, and place on top.
  - Bake until ready, maybe 40 minutes.

===== Notes =====

  * My oven's got its own ideas about things, so I set it to 200℃, and cook for an hour.
  * Lots of recipes online //blend// the ingredients together, but I haven't tried that.
  * In case you don't know: there are certain apples that are good for cooking, generally ones that are a bit sour like Granny Smith.
  * In Italy you can by little packets of //lievito//, and the dessert ones have vanilla in them.
  * Wholemeal flour could be nice, maybe half-half.
  * Lots of recipes online top the cake with icing sugar, but that seems like overkill to me.
  * Originally I used a less complex method: dry stuff, eggs, oil, apples...
  * Cinnamon's an obvious spice to try adding. I've tried lemon myrtle and wattle seed, and that was a nice combo.

{{tag>cake food Italy recipe}}