Description
A tender, cinnamon-scented cake topped with tart Granny Smith apples, a crunchy oat streusel, and a chilled custard sauce.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 3 Tbsp whole milk or cream
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt
- About 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour (for streusel)
- 1/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 6 Tbsp unsalted cold butter, cut into small pieces (for streusel)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar (for streusel)
- 6 large egg yolks (for custard)
- 6 Tbsp granulated sugar (for custard)
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk (or half-and-half/cream)
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9-inch springform pan.
- Make the custard: Warm milk in a saucepan until steaming. Whisk egg yolks and sugar until smooth, then gradually whisk in warm milk. Cook until thickened, strain, stir in vanilla, cover, and chill.
- Make the streusel: Mix cold butter with flour, oats, and sugar until crumbly. Refrigerate.
- In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs. Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt, then fold into butter mixture with milk.
- Spread batter in pan, layer apple slices on top, and sprinkle with streusel.
- Bake for 50–60 minutes until golden and a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 15–20 minutes, dust with confectioners’ sugar, and serve with custard.
Notes
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Irish
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 39g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 6g
- Cholesterol: 80mg