Molly's Buttery Apple Cake
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter + extra for baking dish
- 3 Golden Delicious apples, peeled & sliced thinly
- ⅔ cup flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 whole eggs + 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp lemon zest
Special Equipment
- microplane/zester
- 9" round baking dish
How-to
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 350º
- Grease a 9” round baking dish with butter
Fry Apples
- In a large frying pan melt the butter. Add the apples and fry until tender, 5-10 minutes, over medium to medium-high heat, moving the apples around to be sure they are all coated in the butter and watching them so that they do not burn
Mix Cake Dough
- While apples are frying, in a bowl stir together flour, salt and baking powder
- In a separate bowl, whisk together sugar, 2 whole eggs, 1 egg yolk, vanilla extract and lemon zest until creamy and well mixed
Assemble & Bake
- Stir apples with the melted butter into egg and sugar mixture and mix quickly so that the hot butter does not scramble the eggs
- Once apples are covered, add the flour mixture and mix to coat apples
- Spoon into 9" round buttered baking dish
- Bake 30-35 minutes or until cake forms a brown crust on top
- Let cool in pan for 5 minutes
- Invert, then flip back over, apple-side-up, and let cool completely before serving