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Apple pie with chopped almonds

Here once again, I present a recipe for an apple pie. Admittedly, my youngest son was not really enthusiastic about this cake because it was more apple than cake, he said. He is not completely wrong, the cake is definitely very appley - but I don't think that this is a disadvantage at all! 

Ingredients

5 - 6 apples

250 g soft butter

140 g brown sugar

2 eggs

250 g flour

2 tsp baking soda

1 pinch of salt

100 g chopped almonds

1 tsp cinnamon 

1 tsp icing sugar

Preparation

Peel the apples, remove the seeds and cut into pieces.

Then boil the apple pieces in hot water for 3 minutes.

Drain the water and let the apples cool down a little in a sieve.

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

In a bowl, stir the butter with the sugar until frothy.

Add two eggs one by one and mix.

Then add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix everything to a smooth dough.

Fill about half of the dough into a springform pan lined with baking paper and smooth it down.

Spread the cooked apple pieces on the dough and spread the remaining dough over the apple pieces.

Mix the chopped almonds in a small bowl with the cinnamon...

... and spread over the cake.

Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 25 - 30 minutes (toothpick test!).

Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool briefly and seave the icing sugar over the cake while still warm.

Then let the cake cool down before taking it out of the pan. My experience: Getting the cake out of the pan too early is not a good idea! But a bit warm it tastes particularly delicious!

Enjoy your meal!

[Translated from here.]