Mom's Buttery Apple Cake

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• Grease a 9” round baking dish with butter.
• In a large frying pan melt the butter. Add the apples and fry until tender, 5-10 minutes, over medium to medium-high heat, moving the apples around to be sure they are all coated in the butter and watching them so that they do not burn.
• While apples are frying, in a bowl stir together flour, salt and baking powder and spices.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together sugar, 2 whole eggs, 1 egg yolk, vanilla extract and lemon zest until creamy and well mixed.
• Stir apples with the melted butter into egg and sugar mixture and mix quickly so that the hot butter does not scramble the eggs.
• Once apples are covered, add the flour mixture and mix to coat apples.
• Spoon into 9" round buttered baking dish.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until cake forms a brown crust on top.
• Let cool in pan for 5 minutes.
• Invert, then flip back over, apple-side-up, and let cool completely before serving.