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German Apple Pie 150 g 150 g 1 tbsp 3 200 g 1 tsp 1 pinch
softened butter sugar vanillasugar eggs flour baking powder salt lemon peel from 1 lemon 2 tbsp calvados or rum 800 g cleaned Apples, cut into small pieces 80 g hazelnuts, ground 80 g sugar 1/2 tsp cinnamon 80 g butter, melted butter and a little flour to grease and dust the springform tin
All the ingredients should be at room temperature when preparing the dough. Preheat the oven to 180째C. Peel and core the apples. Cut them into small pieces. You should have app. 800 g after cleaning them. Mix with the juice of 1 lemon. Mix egg yolks, sugar and vanilla sugar and beat until white. Then add the softened butter and continue stirring. Beat the egg whites. Sift the flour and mix with the baking powder and a pinch of salt. Add the calvados and the lemon peel to the butter mixture and half of the egg whites and mix carefully. Then add the flour and the rest of the egg white and work in gently. Grease and dust a springform tin of 26 cm. Fill in the dough and pour the apples ontop. Bake on the middle rack for app. 40 minutes. Mix the ground hazelnuts with the sugar and the cinnamon. Take the cake out of the oven and pour the hazelnut mixture and then the melted butter evenly onto the cake. Bake for another 10 to 15 minutes and let cool on a rack. Can be served with whipped cream.