French Apple Cake

My brother loves anything apple paired with ice cream so for his birthday this year I baked a French apple cake. The recipe is from Dorie Greenpan's french baking cookbook and is fabulous. It isn't really a cake so much as a cake tin full of apple chunks with just enough batter to (sort of) hold things together. The key was to use different types of apples so there was different apple flavors and textures in each bite. It was awesome with a big dollop of vanilla ice cream.

Happy Birthday Vij. I love you!!!

Ingredients:

110g AP Flour

3/4 tsp Baking powder

pinch salt

4 large apples (different varieties)

2 large eggs

150g sugar

3 Tbsp dark rum

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

8 Tbsp (1 stick) butter, melted and cooled to room temperature

Method:

- Preheat oven to 350F and generously butter an 8" springform cake pan

- In a small bowl, whisk flour, salt and baking powder

- Peel and core apples. Cut them into 1 inch pieces.

- In a large bowl whisk eggs until frothy, add sugar and whisk to combine. Add rum and vanilla.

- Add half of flour to egg mixture then half of butter. Whisk until combined then add remaining flour and finish with butter. The cake batter should be thick

- Fold in apple pieces until they are all covered with batter. Pour into cake tin and smooth the top with spatula so it is relatively flat

- Bake for 50-60 minutes until a tester comes out clean and the top is nice and brown

- Serve with vanilla ice cream (or cinnamon ice cream if you can find it because that sounds like heaven)