ZELDA’S APPLE CRUMBLE CAKE
Recipe and photo: Zelda Ellis
This is a rather long process but really very delicious: It is almost an apple crumble with a type of cheesecake?
- Cake:
- 310 ml cake flour
- 180 ml brown sugar
- 5 ml baking powder
- 2,5 ml cinnamon
- 100 g cold butter, coarsely grated
- 4 medium apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- 3 eggs
- 230 g plain creamed smooth cottage cheese
- 250 g cultured cream
- 125 ml tightly packed brown sugar
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- pinch of salt
- Crumble:
- 250 ml cake flour
- 160 ml brown sugar
- 2,5 ml cinnamon
- pinch salt
- 60 ml melted butter
- Cake:
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon. Rub butter into the flour, Grease a 20 cm spring foam pan. Spoon two thirds of the mixture into the pan. Shake the pan to spread the mixture out evenly. Do not press down.
- Arrange the apples on top and cover with the remaining flour mixture. Do not press down.
- Bake in preheated oven at 180º C for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile beat eggs, cottage cheese, cream, brown sugar, vanilla and salt together.
- Pour over baked apple mixture and bake for further 20 minutes.
- Crumble:
- Mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and melted butter for the crumble together. Mix to form big crumbs.
- Scatter over cake, piling it slightly higher in the middle.
- Bake for further 20 minutes. Leave to cool. Run a knife along the edge to loosen.
- Turn out carefully.
