Рецепт German Krummeltorte (easy apple crumble cake)
German Krummeltorte (easy apple crumble cake)
December 30, 2013 by Becca John 9 Comments
I know it’s incredibly unusual for me to post two sweet recipes in one month, let alone two in a row, but it pretty much represents the way I eat at this time of year. January to November, I’ll probably eat dessert no more than once or twice a month, but come December, every meal must be followed by some sort of sweet, and then between each meal there’s plenty of chocolate - so I’m making the most of it before January swings round once again.
This German Krummeltorte might sound fancy, but it’s actually ridiculously easy – so much so that you need pretty much no baking ability whatsoever. It’s sort of an apple crumble / apple pie / apple cake hybrid, consisting of a layer of cake at the bottom, then a layer of spiced apples, and finished off with a crumbly streusel-like topping. The simplicity of this recipe becomes apparent when you realise that the recipe for the cakey bottom layer is actually identical to the crumble topping – how it works, I have no idea, but somehow it transforms into two different things as it cooks. Must be some sort of magic.
Now I can’t actually take full (or any) credit for this recipe, since it’s actually one of my late Granny’s recipes from her hand-written recipe book that we discovered a while back – aren’t those the best? You know a recipe is special when someone has taken the time to write it out by hand into their personal recipe book. My Granny wasn’t even remotely German (she was Welsh, actually), and I have no idea where she got this recipe from originally (probably an old cookbook or one of her friends), so I’ll just credit it to her. She was an amazing cook.
The best thing about this cake is how versatile it is – if you let it cool, you can serve it as a teatime snack with a cup of tea, or if you serve it while it’s warm with a drizzle of cream, it’s more of an apple crumble-like dessert. It will happily keep for a few days, so you can even do both!
German Krummeltorte (apple crumble cake)
Author: Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche’s Granny
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- ~700g apples (a mixture of cooking and eating apples)
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 150g granulated sugar
- 100g butter or margarine
- 250g self-raising flour
- 1 egg
- 2tbsp demerara sugar
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 190°C (Gas Mark 5 / 375°F). Line and lightly grease a spring-form cake tin measuring around 9 inches.
Peel and core the apples, and cut them into chunks or slices. Add them to a pan with the cinnamon and a third of the granulated sugar, and cook over a low heat for 5 minutes until nearly soft. Set aside.
Rub the butter and the flour together, then add the remaining granulated sugar and egg, and mix well with a fork to form a breadcrumb-like mixture.
Press two-thirds of the cake mixture into the cake tin, and add the stewed apples in a slightly rounded heap, leaving a small gap around the edge. Then sprinkle the remaining cake mixture around the sides and over the top of the apples. Top with a couple of tablespoons of demerara sugar.
Bake for around 40 minutes, or until golden brown. To serve warm, leave to stand for a few minutes, and then release from the spring-form pan. To serve cold, leave it to cool in the tin and then remove and slice.
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More apple recipes:
Apple and goat’s cheese dauphinoise potatoes
Apple, parsnip and potato soup
Whipped caramel apple pie dip from Wanna Be A Country Cleaver
Apple cinnamon roll muffins from Cooking Classy
Apple and poppy seed coleslaw from Damn Delicious