Balsamic-Glazed Apple Cake
This is the Balsamic-Glazed Apple Cake recipe.
- Prep: 25 min
- Cooking: 40 min - 45 min
Ingredients
- Apple Topping
- 1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar
- 1 tsp (5 mL) ground cinnamon
- 4 Granny Smith apples peeled and thinly sliced
- Cake
- 4 egg yolks beaten
- 2/3 cup (160 mL) sour cream
- 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla extract
- 2 cups (500 mL) Five Roses Cake and Pastry flour
- 1 cup (250 mL) sugar
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) baking soda
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) baking powder
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) ground nutmeg
- of salt
- 3/4 cup (180 mL) butter softened
- 3/4 cup (180 mL) apple juice
- 1/4 cup (60 mL) balsamic vinegar
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Preparation
Toss sugar, cinnamon and apples together. Spread out in well buttered 9-inch (23 cm) square baking pan or round springform pan; reserve.
Stir together yolks, 1 tbsp (15 mL) of the sour cream and vanilla extract. Stir together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl. Add butter, remaining sour cream and blend, using an electric mixer set at low speed, until dry ingredients begin to clump. Increase speed to high and beat for 1 1/2 minutes. Add egg mixture beating well and scraping down sides of bowl.
Drop spoonfuls of batter into prepared pan; gently smooth surface of batter. Bake in 350 ºF (180 ºC) oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until a tester inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool cake in panon rack for 10 minutes; turn onto a serving plate.
Boil apple juice and balsamic vinegar in saucepan at medium heat for about 12 minutes or until reduced to a syrup. Brush evenly over cake.
