Fluffy Swedish Apple Cake Recipes

SWEDISH APPLE CAKE (ÄPPELKAKA)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 inch springform pan. Make the Apple Topping: Heat butter in a 12 inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add apples and sauté until they are lightly caramelized, about 5-8 minutes. Add brown sugar and cinnamon and continue to cook, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves and apples are evenly coated, about 1 more minute. Remove apples from the heat and set aside.
• Make the cake: Whisk flour, baking powder, salt and cardamom together in a medium bowl and set aside. Whisk sugars and eggs together in a large bowl until fully combined. Slowly add melted butter to sugar and egg mixture and continue whisking until uniform in texture. Add sour cream and vanilla and whisk until fully combined. Add flour mixture and whisk until batter just comes together.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan and even out the top with a small offset spatula. Arrange apples over the top of the batter in two concentric circles. The apples should just touch each other but not overlap. Reserve the butter and sugar mixture that remains in the skillet. Transfer the cake to the oven and bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean or with just a few moist crumbs attached, about 40-50 minutes.
• Add a couple of teaspoons of water to the skillet along with the reserved butter and sugar mixture leftover from making the apple topping. Cook over medium heat until warm and syrupy in texture, about 1-2 minutes. Brush syrup over the top of the cake, particularly the apples. Cool cake for at least 20 minutes on a wire rack and serve.

GLAZED SWEDISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Cut two apples into 1cm dice and one into thin slices to decorate the cake.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and cinnamon into a large bowl or into the bowl of an electric mixer, then add the sugar and mix together.
• Add the two diced apples, then the melted butter and the eggs. Mix all the ingredients together until combined.
• Tip the batter into the 25cm cake tin with the base lined with a disc of baking parchment, then lay the apple slices on top so that they fan out around the edge of the cake.
• Bake in the oven at 180°C for about 50 minutes, or until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Loosen around the edges using a small, sharp knife and carefully remove the cake from the tin before transferring to a serving plate.
• Meanwhile, prepare the glaze: melt the butter in a pan over a medium heat, add the sugar, stirring until it dissolves. Stir in the cinnamon.
• Pour over the cake and allow to cool completely while soaking up the spicy syrup.

SWEDISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix apple slices with lemon juice.
• Fill a greased 2-quart casserole (or 8 inch square Pyrex dish) with apple slices.
• Sprinkle apples with 1 Tbs sugar and ground cinnamon.
• Mix together melted butter, sugar, flour, egg, and nuts to form a doughy batter.
• Scrape batter on top of apples and smooth out.
• Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour or until top is golden.
• Let cool for 15 minutes in pan on rack and then serve from pan with ice cream--do not invert. Or let cool completely in pan and serve room temperature.

SWEDISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease an 8x8-inch baking dish.
• To make the cake, cream the sugar and shortening together in a mixing bowl. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a second bowl. Gradually stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture. Fold in the apples and walnuts until evenly blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
• To make the topping, place the milk, margarine, and brown sugar in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir to dissolve the brown sugar, and cook until the margarine melts. Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a baking sheet to prevent spillovers. Pour the topping over the cake.
• Return the cake and baking sheet to the oven and bake for an additional 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool to room temperature before serving.

SWEDISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Cream sugar and shortening.
• Add egg and salt.
• Combine with flour, spices, and soda.
• Mix in apples and nuts last.
• Pour in greased 9X13" pan.
• Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Spread topping at once over hot cake. It will seem like you don't have enough topping, but just use a fork and knife to spread little chunks all over the cake. Trust me! It's plenty!
• Return to oven for about 15 minutes.