Torta di Mele
Moist Apple Cake

Prep time: 20 min | Total time: 1 hour | Servings: 10

Ingredients

• 5 apples
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 200 g (1 cup) sugar
• Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla pod or a few drops of good vanilla essence
• 5 eggs
• 300g (3 cups)  plain flour
• 150 g (²/₃ cup) butter
• Natural baking powder  for 300 g (3 cups) flour
• 50 g (¹/₃ cup) pine nuts, toasted

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 170°C/340°F. Put the butter into a pot and melt in the oven, taking care that it doesn’t burn.
• Peel the apples and cut them into small pieces. Add the lemon juice and 50 g (1/4 cup) of the sugar. Mix together and set aside.
• Break the eggs into a large bowl. Add the remaining sugar and beat together well.
• Add the melted butter, the vanilla, the flour and the natural baking powder, mixing well.
• Add the apples.
• Put the mixture in a cake tin, sprinkle the toasted pine nuts on top and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Serve with whipped cream, custard or vanilla ice cream.