Apple grid cake with marzipan

AUTHOR
Eunice Scott
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 300 g Flour
  • 50 g + 75 g sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 150 g cold + 100 g soft + some butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 150 g cold marzipan paste
  • 3-4 (approx. 700 g; e.g. Cox Orange) sour apples
  • 1 egg + 1 egg white (size M)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS condensed milk or cream

Directions

  1. 1

    For the short pastry, knead flour, 50 g sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 150 g butter in pieces and 4-5 tbsp cold water first with the dough hooks of the mixer and then briefly with your hands until smooth. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes.

  2. 2

    Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø). Good 3⁄4 Roll out the dough on some flour round (about 34 cm Ø). Line the springform pan with the dough, pressing it down at the edge to a height of about 4 cm. Prick the bottom of the dough several times with a fork.

  3. 3

    Chill the rest of the dough.

  4. 4

    Grate the marzipan evenly on the dough base. Cream 100 g butter and 75 g sugar. Peel, quarter, core and roughly grate apples. Squeeze the grated apples with your hands and mix into the butter-sugar-cream.

  5. 5

    Separate 1 egg. Beat 2 egg whites until stiff and fold into the apple mixture in portions. Spread into the mould.

  6. 6

    Roll out the rest of the dough onto a little flour (approx. 27 cm Ø). Cut into strips (approx. 1 cm wide) with a dough wheel or knife. Place as a grid on the apple mixture, press lightly on the edge.

  7. 7

    Whisk 1 egg yolk and condensed milk. Brush the grid with it. Bake the cake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 55 minutes (if necessary, cover with aluminium foil after approx. 45 minutes).

  8. 8

    Let it cool down in the springform pan.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
290 kcal
CARBS
29 g
FATS
17 g
PROTEINS
6 g