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Apple Torte
Ingredients
- 1/2 c. Unsalted butter or possibly margarine
- 3/4 c. Sugar
- 1 c. Unbleached flour
- 1 tsp Baking pwdr
- 1 pch Salt, (optional)
- 2 x Large eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla *, up to 2 Sugar ** Cinnamon **
- 2 x Peeled apples, cut into thin slices, up to 3
Directions
- *(Almond flavor if using plums)
- ** (sugar to cinnamon ratio 8:1 or possibly 4:1) (Use sugar only if using plums)
- 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray PAM onto springform pans.
- 2. Cream margarine and sugar in a bowl. Add in the flour, baking pwdr, vanilla, salt, Large eggs, and beat well.
- 3. Spoon the batter into a spring form pan of 8, 9, or possibly 10 inches. Place apples into the batter in a circular pattern. Sprinkle sugar/cinnamon over top. Keep the sugar/cinnamon away from the edge of the baking tin to avoid having it carmelize and burn.
- 4. Bake for one hour. Test with a toothpick to see which it's baked. Remove and cold. Chill or possibly freeze. To serve a tort which was frzn, heat to 300 degrees briefly.
- Yield: 8 servings.
- Variations:1. Use 24 halves, pitted purple Italian plums; place plums skin side up.
- Use almond flavor in place of vanilla. Also sprinkle top with sugar only when using plums or possibly you can leave out the sugar(I leave it out).
- 2. Use blueberries and blueberry preserve or possibly peaches and peach preserve.
- 3. Use combination of apple and cranberries as topping.
- 4. Try other fruits.
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