Apple Cake
This is an original way to prepare an apple cake. It is also a very light dessert.
10 large ripe yellow or red apples
1 3/4 cups finely ground semolina
2 cups flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 Tbsp. + 2 tsp. baking powder*
1/2 cup finely ground dry bread
unsalted butter
1. Combine in a bowl the flour, semolina, sugar and baking powder.
2. Grease an 11 inch spring-form pan with butter, and then flour it with the dry bread crumbs and set in the refrigerator.
3. Peel the apples and remove the corks.
4. Preheat the oven to 355°.
5. Divide the dry ingredients into four parts. Spread the first part of the dry ingredients on the bottom of the springform pan and press it.
6. Slice the apples thinly and divide them in three parts.
7. Cover the dry layer with a layer of apples. Press the apples so them juices will moisten the flour.
8. Continue with the dry ingredients and then with the apples until the ingredients are finished. The last layer should be the dry ingredients.
9. Cover the cake with thin slices of butter. Mix the dry bread crumbs with a 1/3 cup of sugar and then sprinkle the top of the cake until covered. Don't use all the bread mixture if it isn't necessary.
10. Bake the cake for one hour and then reduce the heat to 300° and cook for another 30 minutes. Let the cake to cool off before serving.
* In Italy the baking powder that we use has a little bit of vanilla flavor. It comes in gr. 16 envelopes, about 1/2 oz.
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