Apple Streusel Cake Recipe

Crunchy apple streusel cake.

This recipe yields a cake of about 8 servings.

Ingredients

Streusel topping:

• Cake flour, 50 g (1/3 cup)
• Cinnamon (ground), 1/2 tsp
• Granulated sugar, 70 g (1/3 cup)
• Unsalted butter (cold, cut into small pieces), 60 g (4 1/4 Tbsp)

Cake:

• Cake flour, 150 g (1 cup)
• Baking powder, 5 g (1 tsp)
• Salt, 1/8 tsp
• Granulated sugar, 100 g (1/2 cup)
• Unsalted butter (room temperature), 60 g (4 1/4 Tbsp)
• Egg (room temperature), 1 medium
• Milk, 85 ml (1/3 cup)
• Vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp
• Apple (peeled, cored, and diced), 2 medium

Directions

Streusel topping:

1. In a bowl, mix together flour, cinammon, and sugar
2. With your fingertips or a fork, rub the butter into the flour mixture until forming coarse crumbs
3. Set aside

Cake:

1. In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt
2. In another bowl, cream the butter with the paddle attachment of the hand mixer
3. Add the sugar to the creamed butter and beat until light and fluffy
4. Add the egg and vanilla extract to the butter mixture and beat well
5. With a spatula, carefully fold part of the flour mixture into the butter and egg mixture until just combined, then do the same with part of the milk
6. Repeat the previous step until all the flour and milk are incorporated
7. Pour the batter into a greased round 20 cm pie pan and smooth the surface
8. Arrange the diced apples on top of the batter and sprinkle with the streusel topping
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for about 50 minutes
10. Carefully remove the cake from the cake tin and place on a wire rack to cool

How to serve

Serve warm or at room temperature.