So, my house has a couple of apple trees in the back garden, from which I got a nice little crop (mainly of russets) soon after I got here.
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These apples having been around for a while (the above picture is a month or so old), they're starting to get past their best so I figured I should process the rest of them before they're all horrible. Hence, apple cake - for which I found an interesting looking recipe which is apparently Armenian.
Ta-da! It's even edible and everything.
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I enclose the original recipe with a few notes and a link to the original for if anyone's interested:
INGREDIENTS
3 Gala apples (not peeled), diced into ¼ inch cubes (The author seems to not have noticed that apples are not universal in size, especially if homegrown - basically putting in enough such that there was an even coating of sugar over all of them seemed to work - JB)
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
½ cup canola oil (vegetable oil of any sort will do - JB)
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 cup walnuts, chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Add the cinnamon and sugar together in a bowl.
As you are dicing the apples, toss them in the bowl with the cinnamon and sugar to coat them and prevent browning. (For both this and the next one, "mix with a spoon" is more an appropriate verb than "toss" - JB)
Add the flour to the apples and toss.
Mix the oil, eggs and vanilla together and add to the apples (I do this in one large measuring cup after adding the oil so I don't dirty an additional bowl).
If you want to add in the walnuts you can do so here and give it one final mix.
Bake in a springform pan or a 9x9 baking pan for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. (I used a loose-bottomed cake tin. 40-45 mins was a massive underestimate, it'll probably take over an hour)
The original recipe is here: http://dinnerthendessert.com/armenian-apple-chunk-cake/