Apple Walnut Cake

Ingredients

• •For the dough:
• •3 small cups margarine
• •A pinch of salt
• •1 packet vanilla
• •2 small cups brown sugar
• •Half a dessertspoon grated orange zest
• •4 eggs
• •1 dessertspoon baking powder
• •5 small cups flour
• •750 g tart apples
• •Also:
• •Oil to grease the pan
• •2 small cups margarine
• •3 small cups walnut halves
• •3 small cups chopped walnuts
• •3 tbsp sugar
• •Powdered sugar

Preparation

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 175°C. Mix the margarine, salt, vanilla, sugar and orange zest. Add the eggs. Mix the flour and baking powder and add to the egg mixture.

2. 2

   Peel the apples, halve them and remove the cores. Dice 1 apple into small cubes and add to the dough.

3. 3

   Grease a round baking pan and place the dough in it. Decorate the rounded surface of the remaining apples by cutting slits with a knife. Place them core-side down on the dough. Cut the margarine into small pieces and scatter over the apples with the chopped walnuts.

4. 4

   Sprinkle sugar on top and arrange the walnut halves around the edge of the cake as shown.

5. 5

   Bake the cake on the middle rack of the oven for about 50 minutes. You can also cover the top with aluminum foil before baking.

6. 6

   Take the cake out of the oven and remove it from the pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if you like.

7. 7

   You can also make this cake with pears. Just prepare the pears the same way. You can also use apples and pears mixed if you like.