Danish Apple Cake

Name: Danish Apple Cake
Yield: Serves Four to Five
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: about 100 g/4 oz brown sugar; 1 kg/2 lb apples, peeled and quartered; about 75 g/3 oz butter; icing sugar; 100 g/4 oz fresh white breadcrumbs; ground cinnamon; grated rind of 1 lemon; egg custard or whipped cream; egg custard or whipped cream

Preparation info

Serves
Four to Five

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

It is difficult to give exact quantities for this recipe, but it is extremely simple to make. The basic principle is to achieve layers of cooked sweetened apple, alternating with layers of crisply fried breadcrumbs, arranged in the form of a cake.

Ingredients

about 75 g/3 oz butter
1 kg/2

Europe
Denmark
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian
Nordic

Method

Heat a tablespoon of the butter in a frying pan and fry the apple pieces in it fairly briskly until they are beginning to soften, and looking a little brown. Tip them into an ovenproof dish of some sort. Then flavour them with the sugar, lemon rind and a sprinkling of cinnamon. Cook them in a slow oven until they are tender, but not broken up.

While they are cooking fry the breadcrumbs: