Cakes & Pastries

It´s not apple time yet but at this year here was a plenty of flowers in the apple trees already. Waiting for a good harvest.

Almond Apple Pie



Ingredients:

2 large eggs
125 ml sugar
200 ml flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 - 2 tsp vanilla sugar
2 tbsp cream or milk
100 g butter
2 - 4 apples, peeled, sliced
cinnamon
1 tablespoon sugar

50 g slivered almonds
cinnamon
1 tablespoon sugar

Whisk the egg and sugar lightly. Mix the melted butter among the cream (or milk). Add to the egg mixture, as well the flour and baking powder. Do not mix too much.

Put the dough in a greased pie dish. Arrange the apple slices on top. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top. Cook at 200 degrees C for 10 minutes.

Take pie from oven, add on the top 50 g slivered almonds, a little more cinnamon and 1 tablespoon sugar. Put back to oven and bake 10 - 15 minutes. Don´t let almonds burn too dark.

Serve with vanilla sauce or vanilla ice cream.

 

Zucchini Bars
Cream together
2/3 cup packed brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter
Then add 1 egg and 1/2 easpoon vanilla

Mix together
1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 tspn ground cinnamon then add to the wet ingredients -just lightly stir

Lastly add
1cup shredded zucchini and 1/2 cup chopped nuts (if nuts are desired)

Bake at 350f in an 8x8 pan for about 25 to 30 minutes

Let cool completely and then ice with

3/4 cup confectioners sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves and enough milk to make a smooth icing (about 4 tablespoons)

YUM!!

 

Gooseberry cheese cake



125 g butter
1,5 dl sugar (150 ml)
1 egg
1,5 dl wheat flour (150 ml)
1 dl potato flour* (100 ml)
1 teaspoon baking powder
(1 teaspoon vanilla sugar)
500 ml mashed gooseberries*
sugar (springling to the berries if needed)

Quark filling:
250 g quark*
0,5 dl milk or cream (50 ml)
o,5 dl sugar (50 ml)
1 egg

*Notes: You can also use only wheat flour (2,5 dl/250 ml). Potato flour makes your cake softer.
*Quark is typical for the Nordic and the East European cuisines. Cream cheese or ricotta-type soft cheese might be suitable susbtitutes if quark is not familiar in your kitchen.
*You can use what ever berries you like. Also sliced apples with cinnamon go well.


Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the egg. Mix the flour, baking powder together and add to the mixture. Cut a disk of parchment paper and place on the bottom of a cake pan (diameter about 20 cm). Using your hands, lightly press the soft dough onto the bottom and the sides of the pan. .

Add mashed gooseberries. Pour quark filling over the berries. Bake at +225 C/+392 F for 30 minutes.



Same pie today but with bilberries: