Quick Apple Raspberry Cake French Style Food

APPLE-RASPBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter and flour 9x9x2-inch baking pan or a bundt pan. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add apples; sprinkle with 2 tablespoons sugar. Sauté until tender and juices cook away, about 8 minutes. Set aside to cool. Mix raspberries into apples.
• Using electric mixer, beat remaining 6 tablespoons butter in medium bowl until fluffy. Beat in remaining 1 cup sugar, then eggs 1 at a time. Beat in lemon juice and vanilla extract. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and ginger over; beat inches Spread 13/4 cups batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle evenly with fruit. Drop remaining batter evenly over by teaspoonfuls, spacing apart (batter will spread to cover during baking).
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean and top is golden brown, about 40 minutes. Place cake in pan on rack and cool completely.

APPLE-RASPBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 9x9x2-inch baking pan. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add apples; sprinkle with 2 tablespoons sugar. Sauté until tender and juices cook away, about 8 minutes. Set aside to cool. Mix raspberries into apples.
• Using electric mixer, beat remaining 6 tablespoons butter in medium bowl until fluffy. Beat in remaining 1 cup sugar, then eggs 1 at a time. Beat in lemon juice and vanilla extract. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and ginger over; beat in. Spread 13/4 cups batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle evenly with fruit. Drop remaining batter evenly over by teaspoonfuls, spacing apart (batter will spread to cover during baking).
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean and top is golden brown, about 50 minutes. Place cake in pan on rack and cool completely.

FRENCH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter an 8-inch springform pan and put it on a baking sheet lined with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together in small bowl.
• Peel the apples, cut them in half and remove the cores. Cut the apples into 1- to 2-inch chunks.
• In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk until they're foamy. Pour in the sugar and whisk for a minute or so to blend. Whisk in the rum, vanilla, cardamom and lemon zest. Whisk in half the flour and when it is incorporated, add half the melted butter, followed by the rest of the flour and the remaining butter, mixing gently after each addition so that you have a smooth, rather thick batter. Switch to a rubber spatula and fold in the apples, turning the fruit so that it's coated with batter. Scrape the mix into the pan and poke it around a little with the spatula so that it's evenish.
• Slide the pan into the oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until the top of the cake is golden brown and a knife inserted deep into the center comes out clean; the cake may pull away from the sides of the pan. Transfer to a cooling rack and let rest for 5 minutes.
• Carefully run a blunt knife around the edges of the cake and remove the sides of the springform pan. (Open the springform slowly, and before it's fully opened, make sure there aren't any apples stuck to it.) Allow the cake to cool until it is just slightly warm or at room temperature. If you want to remove the cake from the bottom of the springform pan, wait until the cake is almost cooled, then run a long spatula between the cake and the pan, cover the top of the cake with a piece of parchment or wax paper, and invert it onto a rack. Carefully remove the bottom of the pan and turn the cake over onto a serving dish.

APPLE RASPBERRY UPSIDE-DOWN FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• In bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg.
• Arrange bread on large rimmed baking sheet; pour egg mixture over top.
• Turn bread over, let soak until liquid is absorbed, 10 minutes.
• (make-ahead: cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 12 hours.) Spread butter in 13x9 inch glass baking dish; sprinkle evenly with brown sugar.
• Arrange apples in slightly overlapping rows on top; sprinkle with raspberries.
• Arrange bread on top.
• Bake in 375F oven until puffed and golden, about 35 minutes.
• Let stand for 5 minutes.
• Cut between bread slices to seperate.
• Using large lifter, invert along with apples and raspberries on each plate.
• Variation: Peach-Upside Down French Toast.
• Replace nutmeg with cinnamon.
• Replace apples with 2 cans (each 14 oz/398ml) sliced peaches, drained.
• Omit raspberries.

APPLE-RASPBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 190 Celsius (375 Fahrenheit). Butter a deep baking dish, like a loaf pan (about 8in x 4in).
• Mix the white sugar, 125 ml (1/2 cup) cream, oil, flour, salt and baking soda together.
• Peel, core the apples and cut them into thin slices. Arrange a layer of apple slices in the dish, packed together tightly, then add a layer with all the raspberries, and add a second layer of apple slices on top.
• Pour the batter on the fruit. Bake for 20 minutes
• While the cake is baking make the 2nd batter by mixing the egg, brown sugar and the remaining 60 ml (1/4 cup) cream. After 20 minutes, take the cake out of the oven and pour the new batter on it. Spinkle the sliced almonds on top. Bake for another 20 minutes at the same temperature.
• This cake is very rich in fruit and very moist. It's best eaten after cooling down completely.
• Note.
• As I haven't made this yet you will have to judge if it's best sliced in the pan or gently removed.

RASPBERRY AND APPLE QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Grease and flour bottom bottom only of 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
• Combine first six ingredients, mixing well; set aside.
• Beat eggs and oil with fork or wire whisk to blend thoroughly; mix in orange juice, water and orange peel. Add to dry ingredients, mixing just until moistened.
• Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

EASY RASPBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 in square baking pan with foil; extend foil 2 in over 2 opposite sides. With cooking spray. Flour foil and tap out excess.
• In a large bowl cream butter and 1 cup sugar with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, then vanilla, lemon juice and zest. On low speed, beat in flour, baking powder and salt. Add milk and beat until blended. Gently fold in raspberries, a rubber spatula works well.
• Spread batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and cool in pan 10 minutes. Lift cake from pan by foil and place on a rack to cool completely.
• Remove foil and place cake on a serving plate. Garnish with powdered sugar and fresh raspberries.