Recipe: Tasty Mum’s Irish Apple cake

Mum’s Irish Apple cake. This classic Irish Apple Cake may seem humble but it is a diamond in the rough. Somewhere a cross between an American coffee cake and an apple pie, this cake is one of my mum's best Irish recipes. I am so happy to share this with you as I know it will be an instant family favorite.

An Irish Apple Cake is technically not a cake at all. Apple bread is a better description, but I suppose our ancestors assigned the title cake to any baked good with a little bit of precious sugar. And, a drizzle of custard sauce on a slice of Irish Apple Cake somehow make this classic comfort food even better. You can have Mum’s Irish Apple cake using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mum’s Irish Apple cake

1. It's of For the strudel topping.
2. Prepare 3/4 cup of flour.
3. It's 1/4 cup of oats.
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
5. It's 6 tablespoon of cold butter.
6. Prepare of Cake part.
7. You need 1/2 cup of butter.
8. You need 1/2 cup of sugar.
9. You need 2 teaspoon of vanilla.
10. It's 2 of large eggs.
11. It's 1 1/4 cup of flour.
12. It's 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
13. It's 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.
14. You need 1/8 teaspoon of salt.
15. It's 3 tablespoon of milk.
16. It's 3 of Granny Smith Apple peeled and thinly sliced.

If you have some left over after the apple cake is eaten and gone, drizzle it on pretty much any other pie, cake, or brownie. Please practice hand-washing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Toss the apples into the flour mixture and combine them thoroughly. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and milk together.

Mum’s Irish Apple cake instructions

1. Pre heat over 350.
2. For streusel mix everything but butter, then with your hand squeeze butter in mix until it gets crumble like set aside.
3. For cake cream butter sugar together until fluffy add vanilla then eggs one by one.
4. Separate bowl add flour baking powder cinnamon and salt fold into wet ingredients add milk.
5. Put into a buttered 9 inch pan. Lay sliced apples evenly cover with streusel topping bake for 60 minutes or brown and crisp let cool serve with dusting of powdered sugar.

IRISH APPLE CAKE: In a very large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cloves, nutmeg and lemon zest. I want to keep this Irish apple cake all to myself…it is just that good! It's everything you'd imagine it to be and more. It's not overly sweet like many cakes can be, it has just a nice depth of sweetness which pairs well with slight tartness of the granny smith apples leaving them room to shine. My mom made a Irish Apple Cake but it was nothing like yours, which looks delish and I want to try it.