Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Don’t forget to wear your green today or you’ll get pinched! On onday I gave you an amazing oven braised Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe and today I’m giving you something sweet to finish the meal–an Irish Apple Cake. It is a three layer cake–a cake layer, apple layer and yummy streusel layer.
Hope you have the luck of the Irish today!
Streusel Ingredients:
- 6 TBSP cold salted butter, cubed into 1 TBSP chunks
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- Pinch of salt
Cake Ingredients:
- 1 stick salted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 TSP vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 TSP baking powder
- 1 TSP ground cinnamon
- 1/8 TSP salt
- 3 TBSP milk
- 2-3 Granny Smith apples (depending on size), peeled and thinly sliced
- Powdered sugar, for serving
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degree
- Line the bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan with parchment paper (you can put the pan on the parchment paper, trace with a pen/pencil, cut the paper, then place the paper in the bottom
- Spray the pan with cooking spray
- To make the streusel topping, combine flour, oats, granulated sugar and salt in a food processor and pulse a few times
- Add cubes of butter to processor and pulse until butter is fully incorporated and is the texture of coarse breadcrumbs
- Place in fridge until ready to use
- To make the cake, cream the butter and granulated sugar in a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy
- Add vanilla, then beat in eggs one at a time
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt
- Whisk to combine (this helps to aerate and fluff up the dry ingredients)
- Slowly add the dry ingredients and milk into the wet ingredients
- Once batter has formed (it will be thick!), transfer to the prepared pan
- Top with apple slices in one even layer
- Top apples with streusel
- Bake cake in oven for 45 minutes and test with cake tester
- If not done, cook for increments of 5 minutes until streusel is golden brown and crisp and the cake tester comes out clean (mine took 55 minutes)
- Let cool for 15-20 minutes, then turn the cake out of the pan and put on cooling rack
- When ready to serve, dust with powdered sugar
Irish Apple Cake
Ingredients
Streusel Topping
- 6 TBSP cold salted butter, cubed into 1 TBSP chunks
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- Pinch of salt
Cake
- 1 stick salted butter, at room temperature1/2 cup
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 3 TBSP milk
- 2-3 Granny Smith apples (depending on size), peeled and thinly sliced
- Powdered sugar, for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degree
- Line the bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan with parchment paper (you can put the pan on the parchment paper, trace with a pen/pencil, cut the paper, then place the paper in the bottom
- Spray the pan with cooking spray
- To make the streusel topping, combine flour, oats, granulated sugar and salt in a food processor and pulse a few times
- Add cubes of butter to processor and pulse until butter is fully incorporated and is the texture of coarse breadcrumbs
- Place in fridge until ready to use
- To make the cake, cream the butter and granulated sugar in a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy
- Add vanilla, then beat in eggs one at a timeIn a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt
- Whisk to combine (this helps to aerate and fluff up the dry ingredients)
- Slowly add the dry ingredients and milk into the wet ingredients
- Once batter has formed (it will be thick!), transfer to the prepared pan
- Top with apple slices in one even layer
- Top apples with streusel
- Bake cake in oven for 45 minutes and test with cake tester
- If not done, cook for increments of 5 minutes until streusel is golden brown and crisp and the cake tester comes out clean (mine took 55 minutes)
- Let cool for 15-20 minutes, then turn the cake out of the pan and put on cooling rack
- When ready to serve, dust with powdered sugar
Stay hungry…