Torta De Mele Recipes

TORTA DI MELE (ITALIAN APPLE CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a pie plate and dust with bread crumbs
• Combine melted butter, 1/2 cup sugar, and vanilla bean seeds in a bowl. Add eggs and stir to combine. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and add to butter mixture. Add milk if batter is too thick
• Pour batter into the prepared pie plate. Distribute apple slices in a thick layer on top of the batter. Dot with cubed butter and sprinkle with 1/4 cup sugar.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool completely.

TORTA DE MELE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 170°C/340°F.
• 2. Place the butter into a saucepan and melt in the oven, taking care that it does not burn.
• 3. Peel the apples and cut them into small pieces. Add the lemon juice and 50 grams of the sugar. Mix together and set aside.
• 4. Break the eggs into a large bowl. Add the remaining sugar and beat together well.
• 5. Add the melted butter, the vanilla, the flour and the baking powder, mixing well.
• 6. Add the apples.
• 7. Put the mixture in a cake tin, sprinkle the toasted pine nuts on top and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• 8. Serve with whipped cream, custard or vanilla ice cream.