Salon Apfelkuchen Recipe

Oma's Apfelkuchen 

Step 2: 

(Johanna Schneider McFarland, born in 1925 in Munich, 

forced to flee to Lisbon, Portugal in 1938, later to the USA).

In a medium bowl, mix thoroughly: 

1/2 C cooking oil

1 C sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

In another bowl, toss until coated: 

5 apples, peeled and sliced thinly (Granny Smith or Pippin)

1/2 C chopped walnuts

1/2 C raisins

1 C flour

3/4 tsp cinnamon

Mix contents of both bowls together.  Place in a greased pan (we use springform) and bake 1 hour at 350 (it takes 65 minutes here at high altitude)  Let the cake cool for 30-50 minutes.  Cut around the outside of the pan to separate the cake, and remove the springform wall (or just serve it from the cake pan in pieces). Sprinkle powdered sugar on the top if desired.  Serve with whipped cream.  

Step 1: 

Toss the apples with the flour, raisins, walnuts and cinnamon.

Step 3: 

Add the creamed sugar/egg/oil/vanilla mix to the apple/flour mix.  

Then stir well, coating all of the apples.  

Step 4: 

This is what the cake looks like before you bake it.  Just press it down into the greased pan so that all of the apples are lying flat.  It looks like there are too many apples and not enough batter, but that is the way it is supposed to look right before it goes into the oven. 

Step 5: 

Bake it for 1 hour to 70 minutes at 350 degrees, let cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar.  .  d cre