Apple streusel traybake
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1 hour 25 min
This delicious and moist German apple cake is packed with apples and applesauce and topped with almond treusel.
manuela
7 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 24
- For the pastry base
- 175g granulated sugar
- 50 butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1/2 lemon, zested and juiced
- 350g plain flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1kg apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon sugar
- 600ml applesauce
- For the streusel
- 140g plain flour
- 115g cold butter, cut into cubes
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 115g ground almonds
Method
Prep:45min ›
Cook:40min ›
Ready in:1hr25min
- Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas 6. Line a rimmed baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- For the pastry combine sugar, butter, and vanilla sugar in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon zest with the last egg.
- Combine flour and baking powder and sift over butter mixture. Quickly beat into mixture with the electric mixer running on low speed.
- Combine apple slices, lemon juice, and cinnamon sugar in a bowl. Fold into mixture. Spread mixture onto the prepared baking tray. Evenly spread with applesauce.
- For the streusel combine flour, butter, sugar, ground almonds and vanilla sugar in a bowl. Crumble with your fingertips to obtain a sand like consistency. Sprinkle streusel over applesauce.
- Bake in the preheated oven until streusel is lightly browned and cake is set, about 40 minutes.
