Torta Mele alla Panna:Apple Cream Cake

Lovely Italian dessert. It is rich but very good. In a sense you could call it a pie but who cares just make it and MMMmm try it!

• Ready In: 1 hr 25 mins
• Yields: 12 more or less depending how you cut it

Ingredients

• Pastry

• 1 1⁄4 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 2  teaspoons  grated lemons
• 4  ounces butter
• 1  egg yolk
• 2  tablespoons  cream

• Filling

• 2  green apples, peeled,cored and cut into quarters and cut thinly
• 2  eggs
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 2  tablespoons flour
• 2  teaspoons  grated fresh lemon rind
• 1⁄2 cup  cream
• 8  ounces cream cheese
• 1  tablespoon  mixed peel
• 1⁄4 cup raisins
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  package  cream, extra
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

1. Sift together the dry pastry ingredients mix well.
2. Cut in the butter until mealy (use pastry cutter or two knives).
3. Beat the egg yolk and cream add to the flour mixture, mix well and form a round ball.
4. Roll out to about 11x7" rectangle.
5. line a pyrex dish with the pastry, bringing the edges up the sides, trim.
6. ---------Filling-----------.
7. Arrange apples, overlapping on the cake base.
8. Beat the eggs and sugar until thick.
9. Gradually add the 2 tbsp flour, lemon rind, cream softened cream cheese, raisins, salt and peelBake in moderate oven (350F) 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
10. Serve room temp with cream (not whipped or serve warm with stiff whipped cream or serve without cream).
11. Sprinkle cinnamon on top.