Apple Amaretto Cake

A detailed recipe for an apple amaretto cake.

Cook: 30 mins

Servings: 6

Ingredients

• Pitted prunes – 350 g
• Brown sugar – 125 g
• Amaretto liquor – 75 ml
• Grated almonds -75 g
• Flour with a leavening agent – 150 g
• Butter – 75 g
• Demerara sugar – 75 g
• Apples – 50 g
• Baking powder – 1/2 teaspoon.
• Milk 2 tablespoon.
• Eggs – 1 pc.
• Powdered sugar – 2 tablespoon.

Directions

1. Peel the apples from the skin and cut them into cubes.
2. Put the prunes in a saucepan, add 75 g of brown sugar and 150 ml of water. Place on the heat for 15 minutes. Then pour out the water, put the prunes in a bowl, add the amaretto, mix all together, cover it with a lid, and leave it overnight.
3. Make the streusel. Add 25 g of butter to 75 g of flour, then add the demerara sugar, drizzle it with a spoonful of cold water, and mix it.
4. Prepare the base of the cake. Sift 75 g of flour and baking powder into a bowl, add 50 g  of butter, 25 g of almonds, egg, milk, 50 g of brown sugar and knead the dough. Add the apples and place the dough in a mold greased with some butter.
5. Put the prunes, streusel, and 50 g of almonds on the top.
6. Bake the cake for 1 hour at 180 degrees. Take it out of the oven, leave it for 30 minutes, and flip the cake over onto a rack. Before serving, sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar.