Hollandsche Appel Koek - Dutch Apple Cake

Submitted by Molly53

"Use a good baking apple for this old favorite such as Granny Smith, Jonathan, Cortland, Empire or Winesap. Cooling time not included in preparation time. From the Michigan Dutch chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 cup butter (no substitutions)
• 1 egg
• 3⁄4 cup milk
• 2 cups apples, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F and butter a 8-inch cake pan.
2. Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
3. Cut in butter.
4. Beat egg, add milk and stir quickly into flour mixture.
5. Place apples decoratively in the prepared cake pan, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon; spread dough over the top.
6. Bake for 45 minutes.
7. Loosen cake from sides and bottom and turn out onto a cake plate immediately.
8. Serve with the dessert sauce of your choice; cinnamon, maple, butterscotch, brandy or lemon.

Reviews

[1st-Marilyn]

Wonderful flavor, lemon sauce was a big hit, plus whipped cream. Yum! EASY to make. Not too sweet. Just right. I used Ginger Crisp apples. They softened right up. I didn't get the caramelized apple flavor mentioned by Brandess. Was that because my apples were too juicy?

 

[PatFitz0329]

am baking this for a apple dessert contest at our senior center, have made this for my family and it's a favorite,been trying the sauces to go with and so far the maple and cinnamon are a favorite(I like the lemon) I used a variety of the apples..good stuff!

 

[Brandess]

I made this recipe exactly as written with one deviation: I baked the cake in an 8" round cake pan. This recipe is a snap to put together and cost me about $7.00. I made this incredibly aromatic cake for a neighbor and was able to have a slice with them. This cake has a medium density texture, which is moist and flavorful. The apples have a wonderful caramelized, not too sweet flavor. The baking time is just right, as the apples have a slight al dente' bite that is very pleasing to the palette. After about an hour, I returned home from delivering the cake. I opened the door to the most delicious aroma of the cake! Gone are the days when you bake cookies for an open house- now you bake Molly's Dutch Apple Cake!

 

[alison s.]

I made two of Molly's Dutch apple cakes today, one for a friend and one for a small outside gathering I attended. Everyone loved this recipe! I made two small changes to the recipe. I added a couple of tablespoons of sugar to the dough and I melted butter and poured it on the apples cinnamon and sugar before I covered them with dough. I remember doing this in my youth when I used to make a Dutch apple cake. Molly's recipe is very authentic because in Europe we tend to like desserts to be less sweet and savour the difference between the sweet caramelised apples and the plainer cake. I think Molly's recipe is excellent!

 

[Ginger Rose]

This did taste quite good but the problem for me was that there wasn't any sugar at all in the dough so the sweetness only came from the caramelized apples. I think I will make it again, as I loved the apples, but I'll add some sugar to the dough.