Le gâteau aux pommes “Jeanina”

Name: Le gâteau aux pommes “Jeanina” (Apple cake with lemon)
Yield: For a small cake, serving 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ⅓ cup (45 g) all-purpose flour; 4 tablespoons (60 g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled; powdered sugar in a shaker; Pinch of salt; ½ pound (225 g) tart apples, peeled; Juice and grated zest of 2 lemons; 2 eggs, separated; ½ cup (100 g) sugar

Apple cake with lemon

Preparation info

For a small cake, serving
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Simone Beck and Michael James

Published 1979

About

This is a moist little tea cake, quickly made.

Ingredients

½ pound (225 g) tart apples, peeled
Juice and grated zest of 2

Europe
France
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Line the bottom of the mold with a piece of buttered waxed paper or baking parchment, then butter the sides well. Quarter the apples and core them. Slice thinly and sprinkle with half the lemon juice.

Working either in the food processor or by hand, blend together the lemon zest and remaining juice, egg yolks, ¼