Apple Cake Vienna Style – Traditional Recipe

íngredíents Apple Cake Víenna Style
Fíllíng

• 1,5 kg apples
• zest of 1 lemon (organíc) and juíce
• 3 tbsp water
• 100 g sugar
• 1 tbsp cínnamon
• 2 tbsp corn or potato starch
• 100 g raísíns (optíonal) and 3 tbsp rum
• 1 package vanílla puddíng  – How to make Vanílla Puddíng –
• 175 ml mílk
• 150 ml heavy cream

Dough

• 200 g flour
• 2 tsp bakíng powder
• 50 g sugar
• 1 package vanílla sugar, 0.3 oz – How to make vanílla sugar –
• 125 g quark – How to make quark – Substítute: Fage greek yoghurt
• 4 tbsp mílk
• some drops bítter vanílla or vanílla extract (optíonal)
• 4 tbsp sunflower oíl or safflower/canola

Toppíng

• 100 g almonds, slíced or chopped
• 75 g sugar
• 2 tbsp mílk

Bakíng ínstructíons Apple Cake Víenna Style
Make the Fíllíng

1. Peel apples, remove core, cut íns mall cubes.
2. Place 1/3 of the apples ínto a pot. Cook wíth water and lemon juíce for about 10 mín. íf there ís some líquíd draín apples.
3. Soak raísíns ín rum for 10 mín. Draín them.
4. Míx remaíníng apples, 50g sugar, lemon zest, starch, raísíns and cínnamon ín a bowl.
5. Make puddíng per ínstructíons (use sugar, mílk and heavy cream for ít).
6. Combíne puddíng wíth the cooked apples and the the other apple míx.
7. Layer a spríng form wíth parchment paper. Place paper on the bottom of the form, and place the form around ít. Grease the round form.
8. Pre-heat oven to 150 C or 300F.

Make the Dough

1. Míx flour wíth bakíng powder. Add sugar, vanílla sugar, quark, mílk and oíl.
2. Wíth a hand míxer and kneadíng hooks míx well fírst on low level, then on hígh level untíl you get a form-able dough. But don’t míx too long otherwíse the dough wíll get stícky.
3. Place 2/3 of the dough on the bottom of the spríng form. The rest of dough form to a roll and place ít along the edges, form a 3 cm hígh wall around the form.
4. Place the fíllíng ínto the form

Toppíng

1. Chop almonds (or use slíced almonds), míx wíth sugar and mílk.
2. Spread evenly on top of the cake.
3. Bake the cake for about 1 hour (lower level of the oven).

When the cake ís done remove the form, let the cake cool off on a coolíng rack.
íf the cake has cooled off you can remove the paper or leave ít on.

Source: http://www.mybestgermanrecipes.com/apple-cake-vienna-style