"But why are you putting up a recipe here Suzanne? Is this not a site about natural dyes?"
You are 100% correct. But it is also Rosh HaShannah, our Jewish New Year, and I am cooking up a storm. All the food revolves around 'simanim', tokens for the new year. For example: Apples and honey, so we may have a good and sweet new year. Pomegranate, so our merits will be abundant like the seeds of the pomegranate. A fish or sheep's head, so we may always be the head and not the tail in life (I am just having a whole fish minus the tail). I am always making apple cake recipes and also making lots of green vegetables like peas, to symbolize renewal and abundance.
This apple cake recipe is our family's favorite because it is so easy to make, and so delicious that I decided I must share the recipe with you. Prep time is 20 minutes and 45 minutes in the oven.
What you need:
4 or 5 large green apples like Granny Smith (if you are Dutch you will take those sour baking apples)
1 pack (200 grams, 7 ounces) of butter, or a non-dairy alternative like Naturina.
1 cup (200 grams, 7 ounces) white sugar
1 cup (200 grams, 7 ounces) self-raising flour
3 large eggs (or 4 medium) I weigh them to be 200 grams.
a small sachet of vanilla sugar
a teaspoon of cinnamon.
a baking dish (buttered, or lined with baking paper.
a pan or skillet
Start by pre-heating your oven at 190ºc (370 Fahrenheit)
Take a regular pan or skillet and start melting the butter with your sugar.
Once the sugar is completely dissolved stir in the self-raising flour and take off the heat.
Peel your green apples, quarter, and remove the core. Cut each quarter into three.
The batter is now cooled down a bit, quickly mix in your eggs. until they are fully dissolved and the batter looks even and glossy.
In your baking dish, lay down a layer of apples.
Pour half of your batter on the apples.
Arrange your second half of apples.
Pour the second half of your batter on the last apples.
Shake the dish a bit to spread out the batter evenly.
Sprinkle with vanilla sugar and cinnamon.
Bake for 50 minutes.
This is my cake, but also spot the handwoven tea towel from Oaxaca there.
Let me know if you have tried this apple cake recipe, and how you liked it.
From my family to yours: may you have a wonderful New Year, and may you be inscribed in the Book of Life. I wish you health, and lots of creative play, and may your hands be blessed to make the most wonderful creations.
Much love, as always
Suzanne