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An authentic Irish Farmhouse Apple Cake ~ delicious with or without the traditional custard sauce!
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Ingredients
Custard Sauce (optional)
- Custard Sauce optional
- 1-1/2 cups whole milk
- 6 large egg yolks
- 6 Tbsp sugar
- 1-1/2 tsp vanilla
Streusel Topping
- 6 Tbsp unsalted cold butter cut in small pieces
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 1/2 cup coarse sugar or granulated sugar, optional
Cake
- 1/2 Cup unsalted butter at room temp
- 1/2 Cup sugar
- 2 Large eggs
- 3 Tbsp milk or cream
- 1 1/4 Cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 3 Granny Smith apples peeled and thinly sliced
- confectioners’ sugar for dusting
Ingredients
Custard Sauce (optional)
Streusel Topping
Cake
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Instructions
Custard Sauce (optional)
- Set the oven to 350 degrees. Make the custard sauce ahead of time. Bring the milk to a simmer over medium heat.
- Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, whisk the yolks and sugar until pale. Drizzle a little of the hot milk into the egg mixture, whisking all the time. Drizzle a little more, then transfer that back into the pan of hot milk and continue cooking, stirring constantly, until the mixture coats the back of a spoon.
- Don't overcook or it can curdle. Stir in the vanilla. Refrigerate the custard sauce until needed.
Streusel Topping
- Blend the bits of butter into the flour, oats, and sugar until the butter is incorporated and the mixture has a coarse crumbly texture. Put in the refrigerator.
Cake
- Grease a 9-inch round springform pan. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- Fold the dry ingredients into the butter/sugar mixture, along with the milk or cream.
- Spoon the batter in to the pan and smooth out evenly. Top with the sliced apples, and then the streusel topping.
- Bake for about 50 minutes to an hour, until the top is lightly browned and a toothpick comes out without wet batter clinging to it.
- Let cool a bit in the pan before removing. Dust with confectioner's sugar and (if using) drizzle with custard sauce before serving.
Recipe Notes
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