Danish Apple And Prune Cake Food

DANISH PASTRY APPLE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C.)
• In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Beat egg yolk in measuring cup and add enough milk to make 2/3 cup total liquid. Stir into flour mixture until all flour is damp. Divide the dough in half. On floured surface, roll half the dough into a rectangle and fit into a 9x13 inch pan.
• In large bowl, combine apples, brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Put apple mixture in pan. Roll out remaining dough and place over apples. Seal edges and cut slits in top dough. Beat egg white till frothy and brush on crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes, or until golden brown.

DANISH APPLE AND PRUNE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F / 190°C.
• Cream together 125g butter and 170g sugar.
• Add well beaten aggs, almonds, self-raising flour, milk, vanilla and baking powder.
• Alternatively, place all these ingredients in a food processor for 10 seconds. Run a spatula around the bowl and process for a further 5 seconds.
• Either way, place the batter into a well greased 23 cm torte tin.
• Stone prunes and coarsely chop and place on batter.
• Mix walnuts with 2T sugar and spoon over the batter.
• Thinly slice apples and place over the top of the walnuts.
• Bake the cake for 40 minutes.
• Carefully remove the cake from the oven by pulling out the rack it is sitting on.
• Quickly sprinkle over the apples 3T sugar, cubed butter and cinnamon.
• Slide the cake back into the oven and bake for a further 15 to 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake.
• Serve the cake with whipped cream.

DANISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Peel, core and thinly slice the apples. Put into a stainless steel or enamel pan with a little water. Cover and cook gently until soft, then purée. Stir in 1 tablespoon of butter and enough sugar to taste. Melt remaining butter in a frying pan, add breadcrumbs and sugar and stir until golden. Allow to cool.
• Just before serving, arrange alternate layers of apple purée and crumbs in a serving dish or individual bowls. Finish with a sprinkling of crumbs, decorate with whipped cream and red currant jelly.

DANISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Whisk the eggs, slowly adding sugar until the mix becomes a light and airy.
• Melt the butter slowly without burning it (for example in the microwave) and let it cool down, and add it to the mixture, along with the grated lemon peel.
• Mix the flour, vanilla essence and baking powder and add it to the mixture.
• Line a large baking tin (lasagna dish) with greaseproof paper: cut the paper to 2" (5cm) larger on each side than the base of the tin, cut into each corner and press down into the tin.
• Pour the mixture into the tin.
• Peel and core the apples, cut into wedges (about 4mm thick at outside) and push them down vertically into the cake mix, so that the curved outsides face upwards towards you, and the sharp insides point downwards into the cake, like teeth. The slices should be completely buried in the cake mix, or they will burn.
• Sprinkle a little sugar on top of the apple slices.
• Bake at 175'C for 45 minutes. Allow to cool partly in the tin before removing to cool down on a wire rack.

COUNTRY APPLE PRUNE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat sugar, oil and eggs for 2 minutes at medium speed; blend in apples. Combine dry ingredients; gradually beat into egg mixture. Stir in plums and nuts. Spoon into a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. , Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes; invert onto wire rack to cool. , Just before serving, dust cake with confectioners' sugar.

DANISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Cook apples and water in covered saucepan on medium heat 10 to 15 min. or until apples are tender, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat.
• Mash apples to desired consistency. Add vanilla and 3 Tbsp. sugar; mix well. Cool.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in large skillet on medium heat. Add bread crumbs, cinnamon and remaining sugar; mix well. Cook 5 to 8 min. or until crumbs are golden brown, stirring constantly. Spread onto baking sheet; cool completely, stirring occasionally.
• Spoon apple mixture and bread crumb mixture alternately into 12 dessert cups; top with COOL WHIP and jam.

DANISH APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Dry the bread in a low oven, when sufficiently dry crush into crumbs.
• Melt 1/4 pound of the butter in a skillet, and add the bread crumbs. Stir to brown over medium heat. Add 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon, stir to keep from sticking.
• Pat 1/3 of the crumb mixture into a greased pie pan, smoothing down.
• Spread over this one can of the applesauce, dot with 1/3 of the remaining butter and sprinkle half the remaining sugar and cinnamon.
• Repeat, then finish with the last third of the crumbs. Dot with last of the butter.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.
• Cool, then turn out onto a plate and refrigerate overnight.
• Before serving coat with whipped topping and garnish with cherries and nuts.

DANISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a 9" square glass baking dish well.
• Mix together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, sugar).
• Stir in slightly melted butter.
• Add beaten egg,apples,nuts, and vanilla and stir to combine.
• Bake 30 minutes in prepared pan or until toothpick tests done.
• Serve warm with a bit of shredded Cheddar cheese sprinkled over the top and a dollop of whipped cream.
• I know the cheese part sounds strange, but it is the secret ingredient!

DANISH APPLE AND PRUNE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas mark 5. Grease a 23cm loose-boittomed cake tin.
• Cream together the butter and muscovado sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, a little at a time. Fold in the ground almonds, flour and baking powder, then gently stir in the milk to make a butter. Pour the cake mixure into the prepared tin. Scatter the prunes on top of the cake mixture. Mix the walnuts and caster sugar together and sprinkle these over the prunes.
• Core the apples and thinly slice into wedges - place these over the walnuts and bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Remove the cake from the oven and scatter over the remaing cubes of butter, cinnamon and remaining sugar. Bake for another 15 minutes until a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean. Serve cut into wedges with a dollop of creme fraiche.
• Per Serving 444 kcalories, protein 6.3g carbohydrate 45.8g fat 27.9g saturated fat 11.2g, fibre 3.2g, sugar 37.6g, salt 0.2g.