Apple crumble bake XL
Author:
Jeroen
Makes: 3 x 2-inch gastro baking tray (120 portions)
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Ingredients
Cake-base
- 1500 gr soft butter
- 1500 gr white sugar
- 30 eggs
- 1500 gr pastry flour
- 48 gr baking powder
- 2 kg apples
Topping
- 750 gr butter
- 750 gr sugar
- 750 gr pastry flour
- 750 gr coarse oat meal
Instructions
Cake-base
- Grease the tin with butter and cover the bottom with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
- Cream the butter until smooth and fluffy.
- Add the sugar all at once and beat until the mixture is as lightly as possible.
- Gradually and slowly add the eggs to the mixture while whisking.
- Combine the flour and baking powder by hand carefully with the mixture.
- Spread the batter in the lined baking trays.
- Dice the apples and place on top of the cake batter.
Topping
- Crumble the cold diced butter with the flour, sugar and oat meal until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs.
- Spread on top of the apples.
Finish
- Bake the cake at 170 °C for 40-60 min or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the tin on a wire rack before serving.
Stuff to know
This quantity will fill three 2-inch gastro baking trays measuring 30x50 cm and makes about 120 portions.
Use soft butter at room temperature for the cake batter.
Do not add the eggs all at once or the batter will curdle.
Use pastry flour rather than bread flour to avoid a chewy cake.
Do not overcook the cake since it will continue cooking for a spell when cooling
Possible add-ins are raisins, chopped nuts, dried fruits and cinnamon.
Use soft butter at room temperature for the cake batter.
Do not add the eggs all at once or the batter will curdle.
Use pastry flour rather than bread flour to avoid a chewy cake.
Do not overcook the cake since it will continue cooking for a spell when cooling
Possible add-ins are raisins, chopped nuts, dried fruits and cinnamon.
