Chocolate baked apple cake

Name: Chocolate baked apple cake
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 8 small apples (approx. 1 kg; e.g. Elstar); 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 70 g Walnut kernels; 50 g Nut nougat (firm to cut); 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour; 100 g Dark chocolate; 175 g soft butter; 150 g sugar (e.g. finer brown); 1 package Bourbon vanilla sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 4 Eggs (Gr. M); 250 g Flour; 1 (5 g) heaped teaspoonful of cocoa; 1 package Baking Powder; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

AUTHOR
Bill Macdonald

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

8 small apples (approx. 1 kg; e.g. Elstar)
2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
70 g Walnut kernels
50 g Nut nougat (firm to cut)
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
100 g Dark chocolate
175 g soft butter
150 g sugar (e.g. finer brown)
1 package Bourbon vanilla sugar
7-10 Tbsp Salt
4 Eggs (Gr. M)
250 g Flour
1 (5 g) heaped teaspoonful of cocoa
1 package Baking Powder
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

Directions

1
Peel the apples, cut out the core (e.g. with an apple corer). Drizzle apples with lemon juice, place in an ovenproof dish. Roast in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for approx. 15 minutes.
2
Let it cool down.
3
Chop nuts. Melt the nougat in a hot water bath, let it cool down for about 15 minutes. Mix nuts and nougat, fill into the apples, press firmly.
4
Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Break the chocolate into pieces, melt in a hot water bath, cool down for about 10 minutes. Cream butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and 1 pinch of salt.
5
Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour, cocoa and baking powder, stir in portions briefly. Stir in liquid chocolate briefly. Spread into the mould. Put apples into it, leaving about 1.5 cm free to the edge.
6
Press something into the dough.
7
Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for approx. 70 minutes (cover after approx. 1 hour if necessary). Remove from the edge of the mould with a knife and allow to cool in the mould.
8
Dust with powdered sugar.