Fresh Apple Cake

My grandmother was a great cook. One of my mom's favorite dishes from her childhood is my grandma's fresh apple cake.

My grandma just recently passed away and as a moment, my aunt got my grandma's handwritten fresh apple pie recipe put on a  cake stand. 

Ingredients:

5 cups of diced peeled green apples 

2 cups of sugar 

1/2 of a lemon 

2 eggs

1 1/2 cup of vegetable oil 

2 tablespoons of vanilla 

3 cups of flour 

1 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda

1/2 teaspoon of all spice 

1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon 

1 cup of chopped pecans 

Cooking Instructions:

1. Peel and dice green apples. 

2. Add two cups of sugar 

3. Add 2 teaspoons of vanilla and squeeze the half of a lemon.

4. In a separate bowl, add eggs, vegetable oil, and vanilla 

5. In another separate bowl, sift flour, baking soda, allspice, and cinnamon.

*** You do NOT have to sift. Pouring it in spoon my spoon is sufficient. The idea is to just get some air in the flour (if that makes any sense).

6. Then add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.

7. Add the apples and pecans to the cake mixture. 

8. Pour the cake mixture into a pan.

9. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 

10. Put the cake mixture in the oven. It will cook for about one hour. 

11. As soon as the cake comes out of the oven - sprinkle the cake with a generous amount of sugar. This will create a crust on top of the cake. 

This cake does not require a frosting but it is super delicious! 

This sh!t is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

My friend is actually allergic to the grains in flour so they started using Einkorn flour, from Italy.  It is the only wheat to not have been hybridized. Einkorn flour has 30% less starch and 30% more protein than regular flour.

So I decided to test our the flour and use it to bake them some banana bread from Einkorn flour.

Here is a picture of the bag of flour I used.

Ingredients: 
2 ripe bananas
1/3 cup of melted butter
3/4 cup of sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 teaspoon of baking soda
large pinch of salt
1 1/2 cups of einkorn flour


Baking Instructions:

1. I did not have any ripe bananas so I put them in them oven at 250 degrees for twenty minutes.

2. Add all of the ingredients into a bowl (I just add them all at once).

3. Then mix up all the ingredients.

4. Add the bananas to the mixing bowl.

5. Change the oven temperature to 350 degrees.

6. Put the bread batter into a pan and then put into the oven for about 20 minutes. It is not an exact science so just try and keep an eye on it.

7. After the bread is done cooking, I put the bread in some foil - this helps keep the bread moist.

The outcome was delicious! She is a physical therapist and her clients were loving it! The bread was moist and tasty!

Try it guys and let me know what you think!