Yesterday we had a project party and all of us got a small gift, mine was a cook book: Slow Food Bible.
A word about Slow Food: Slow Food means taking the time to enjoy good food – choosing seasonal ingredients and sharing the results with family and friends. While the book contains many simple to make recipes with ingredients found in the local market, the simplest - Tuscan Apple & Lemon cake. The cake is just out of the oven but I don’t feel like eating it on my own and then Slow Food, means sharing with friends, so will devour it tomorrow in office.
But that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the aroma. The 45 minutes when the cake was baking in the oven …. Forget the exotic cats or wild flowers, this is the best aroma of all … a cake baking slowly in an oven ;)
Pity I can’t share the cake, but I can share the recipe:
A word about Slow Food: Slow Food means taking the time to enjoy good food – choosing seasonal ingredients and sharing the results with family and friends. While the book contains many simple to make recipes with ingredients found in the local market, the simplest - Tuscan Apple & Lemon cake. The cake is just out of the oven but I don’t feel like eating it on my own and then Slow Food, means sharing with friends, so will devour it tomorrow in office.
But that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the aroma. The 45 minutes when the cake was baking in the oven …. Forget the exotic cats or wild flowers, this is the best aroma of all … a cake baking slowly in an oven ;)
Pity I can’t share the cake, but I can share the recipe:
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200 g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1/3 cup milk
Grated zest of 1 lemon
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
3 golden delicious apples
Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a cake pan and line with baking paper
Sift flour and baking powder into a medium-sized bowl. Add sugar, eggs, butter, milk, lemon zest and nutmeg with an electric beater until thick and smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Peel, core and slice apples, and arrange in a circular pattern on top of batter. Place cake in preheated oven and bake it for 1 hour. Check after about 50 minutes: if apples are beginning to burn, cover with baking paper or aluminium foil for the last 10 minutes. Cake is cooked when a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and let it cool slightly before removing from pan. Dust lightly with icing sugar and serve warm or at room temperature.
200 g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1/3 cup milk
Grated zest of 1 lemon
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
3 golden delicious apples
Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a cake pan and line with baking paper
Sift flour and baking powder into a medium-sized bowl. Add sugar, eggs, butter, milk, lemon zest and nutmeg with an electric beater until thick and smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Peel, core and slice apples, and arrange in a circular pattern on top of batter. Place cake in preheated oven and bake it for 1 hour. Check after about 50 minutes: if apples are beginning to burn, cover with baking paper or aluminium foil for the last 10 minutes. Cake is cooked when a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and let it cool slightly before removing from pan. Dust lightly with icing sugar and serve warm or at room temperature.
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One may ask what to do for the hour when cake is baking – just kick back, relax and enjoy the aromas ;) I just did that :)
5 comments:
Hmmm.. SOunds yumm!!
Heyy!! welcome to the joys of baking!! yep! the smell of the cake baking rocks! :))))
dhanno... u have now found an alternate profession!!! cook... or better still... house husband!!!!
dude,
i dont mind a cake belatedly for my birthday :D
jaldi waapas aa... aur mujhe yeh cake khilaa :))
I can almost smell it...mmmmmm!
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