I like to think all the recipes I have here are good. This German Apple Cake recipe is flat out great. As I like to say, �that’s good eaten there�. You can eat it as it is from the oven or you can kick it up by pouring the Calvados sauce over the top.
� cup melted butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
� cup sugar
1 � teaspoon cinnamon
4 or 5 tart apples Granny Green Smith are best
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and grease an 8×8 square baking dish.
Combine the melted butter, 1 cup sugar, and 2 eggs in a mixer and beat thoroughly.
Add flour, baking powder, and vanilla extract, beat till well blended.
Spread evenly in baking dish.
Combine � cup sugar and cinnamon.
Peel and core apples, then slice into thin slices. Save apples peels for sauce.
Coat evenly with sugar/cinnamon mixture.
Arrange apple slices on top of batter in overlapping rows, pressing lightly into batter.
Bake one hour till done.
Calvados Sauce
1 quart heavy cream
2 cups apple cider
2 tablespoons Calvados (apple brandy) optional
apple peels
In a heavy sauce pan heat apple cider and apple peels.
Reduce to 1 cup.
Strain to remove the apple peels.
Add heavy cream and reduce to half volume.
Stir in Calvados.
While still warm spoon over Apple Cake.
If you refrigerate the calvados sauce it will harden into an apple butter you can spread on toast.
