Sunken apple pie

Name: Sunken apple pie
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 750 g Apples (e.g. Jonagold); 2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 175 g Butter or margarine; 175 g Sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 7-10 Tbsp a few drops of bitter almond aroma; 4 Eggs (size M); 300 g Flour; 3 deleted Tsp Baking Powder; 40 g flaked almonds; 2 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam; 2 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Grease

AUTHOR
Bill Macdonald

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12

750 g Apples (e.g. Jonagold)
2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
175 g Butter or margarine
175 g Sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
7-10 Tbsp a few drops of bitter almond aroma
4 Eggs (size M)
300 g Flour
3 deleted Tsp Baking Powder
40 g flaked almonds
2 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam
2 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

1
Peel, quarter and core the apples. Lightly carve several times lengthwise with a knife. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Whisk soft fat, sugar, vanilla sugar and flavour white-creamy with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs bit by bit.
2
Mix flour and baking powder and stir in. Put the dough into a greased springform pan (26 cm Ø) and smooth it down. Spread the apples in a circle with the incised side facing upwards, close together on the dough. Sprinkle with almond flakes. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for about 45 minutes. Boil up apricot jam with 1 tablespoon of water in a small pot while stirring. Pass through a sieve. Brush apples with it immediately after baking. Let it cool down on a cake rack.
3
Boil up apricot jam with 1 tablespoon of water in a small pot while stirring. Pass through a sieve. Brush apples with it immediately after baking. Let it cool down on a cake rack. Remove the cake from the tin. Dust with icing sugar
4
waiting time approx. 2 hours