Irish Apple Cake with Custard Sauce
This is a mildly sweetened dish that's excellent for commemorating St. Patrick's Day or for eating throughout the colder months. This quick, tasty delicacy is studded with diced apples and served with delightful vanilla sauce!
Ingredients
Cake:
- 24 oz cake flour
- 4 tbsp sugar granulated
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp cloves
- 5 oz butter melted or cooled
- 2 oz vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 6 oz whole milk
- 1-2 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 apples granny smith, peeled and diced
- 4 tsp sugar granulated, sprinkle over the top
Custard Sauce:
- 12 oz whole milk
- 8 tbsp sugar granulated
- 7 large egg yolks
- 2-3 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
For The Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Whisk together the sugar, cake flour, salt, cloves, baking powder, and nutmeg in a large mixing dish.
- Combine together the oil, melted butter, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract in a separate dish.
- Peel and slice the apples, then slice into bite-size slices and toss with the flour mixture.
- Stir the milk mixture into the flour and apple mixture just until mixed to form a sticky dough.
- Spread the batter into the prepared pan, spreading to the borders and topping with the remaining sugar on top.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and baked for 50 minutes, or until a wooden skewer in the middle pulls out cleanly.
For the Custard Sauce:
- In a heavy-bottomed medium-sized saucepan, heat the milk over medium heat until bubbles emerge around the pan's edges.
- In the meantime, whisk together the sugar and egg yolks for 2-3 minutes, or until the liquid is slightly thicker and pale yellow.
- To temper, the egg yolks, slowly whisk about half of the heated milk into the egg/sugar combination.
- In a saucepan, place again the remaining milk and tempered yolks in medium heat. Mix well until the custard starts to thicken.
- Remove the custard sauce from the heat and mix in the vanilla bean paste or extract.
- Serve right away!