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Spiced apple pie with caramel sauce

I baked something for our visit at the weekend. At first I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but in the end it turned out to be this spiced apple cake with caramel sauce. Very tasty - the sauce is only added to the piece of cake right before serving.

The cake is spiced with cinnamon and ground cloves - many of our visitors automatically associate "cinnamon" with Christmas. But I think cinnamon tastes good in all seasons!

Ingredients

Ingredients for the cake

100 g butter at room temperature

250 g brown sugar

2 eggs

200 g flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground cloves

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

50 ml milk

2 apples

100 g walnuts

Ingredients for the sauce

225 g brown sugar

40 g margarine

120 g cream

optionally a pinch of salt, cinnamon, coffee spice or similar.

Preparation

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

In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy.

Add the eggs and mix thoroughly.

Then add flour, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, salt and milk and mix everything well.

Wash, peel, core and cut the apples into small pieces.

Chop the nuts finely.

Stir the apple pieces and chopped walnuts into the dough.

Pour the dough into a springform pan lined with baking paper...

...smooth it out and bake it in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 50 minutes - if the cake passes the stick test, it's ready! (Otherwise bake for a few minutes longer.)

To make the caramel sauce, slowly heat the sugar in a pan over low heat, then add the butter and let it melt. Mix everything well.

Add the cream and a pinch of salt (or alternatively cinnamon, coffee spice or similar)...

...and let it thicken slowly while stirring constantly.

Then put the sauce in the fridge.

Before serving, pour the cold, thick caramel sauce over the cake pieces and decorate with chopped nuts, lava salt, coffee spice or similar to taste.

Thanks to good weather, bright blue skies, sunshine and virtually no wind, we were even able to enjoy the cake on the terrace!

[Translated from here.]