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Mutter Muhl's Apple Cake
Cakes
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons (50 ml) sugar
- 3 tablespoons (50 ml) flour
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) backing powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 small tin pie apples
- optional, 3 tablespoons pecans, chopped
- a bit of butter, cut into small cubes
- Drain the apples, cut into 1-2 cm pieces and chop the nuts.
- Sieve together the flour, backing powder and salt, add to the egg mixture and mix well.
- Add the apples and nuts to the batter, mix.
- Pour dough mixture into a greased glass pie dish and dot with butter flakes.
- Place into oven at 200 °C, reduce temperature to 180 °C and bake for 30-45 minutes.
- Dust with icing sugar before serving with (or without) whipped cream.
'Mutter Muhl' baked this apple cake for my mother, Irene, and her sister Herta when they visited her in Bergenhusen, Germany in 1962.