This recipe I first made because I was teaching a cooking class and I was using different beers and Redd’s Apple Ale had just came out.
Which if you never tried it, it really is a great light beer, its very refreshing, when I first tasted it my first thought was this beer would be fantastic on an extremely HOT!! day 🙂
It just gave me that refreshing feeling…I thought it was great, so I paired it with this Apple Cake.
(I was doubling the cake in these pictures, I used a 11×15 pan)
Ingredients (missing in photo, butter and brown sugar)
Peel, core and slice apples
add flour, cinnamon and baking powder, whisk together
Add softened butter and brown sugar
Cream together
add eggs and vanilla
when mixed
add 3rd of flour, mix, then half applesauce, mix
another 3rd flour, mix, rest of the applesauce, mix
add rest of flour, mix
fold in the flour on the sides
spread mixture in sprayed baking dish
layer you apples over top and bake
Meanwhile in a sauce pan add cider, beer & brown sugar
reduce down and let cool slightly
Baked
pour over cake using a pastry brush to spread around
Then let cool down, then slice and serve
Recipe – Apple Cake
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 3/4 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
2 cups brown sugar, packed, divided
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 large eggs
1 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 large apples, peeled, cored, sliced
1 1/2 cups apple cider
1 cup Redd’s Apple Ale
Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees, spray a 9 inch square pan.
In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a large bowl beat with a mixer butter and 1 1/2 cups brown sugar for 3 minutes. Add vanilla and eggs, beat until combined, reduce speed to low; add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with 2 additions of applesauce and beat until just combined, scrap the sides and fold in by hand.
Pour batter into pan and smooth out, arrange apple slices in rows on top, if you like more apples you certainly use more, and overlap them more closely.
Bake until toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Set on wire rack to cool about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile in a medium sauce pan add cider, beer and remaining brown sugar cook over medium-high heat until reduced to about 1 cup and let cool slightly. With a pastry brush brush mixture all over the top of the cake, letting drip down the sides. Let cool, then serve.
If you did not want to use beer you can just add more cider.
This cake is super most and the cider/beer reduction is so good, soaks right in 🙂
Enjoy!!!
you put beer in your apple cake! This makes me so happy 🙂 Looks amazing–decadent but also homespun and (a little bit) healthy. Liking this much–thanks for sharing.
Ha ha well its in the cider reduction that you pour over the cake 🙂 I had to use the Apple Beer in a recipe for the class so this is what I did and hey you get an excuse to have a drink while you bake!! 🙂
any time, Amy – with beer or cider, deal?… 🙂 btw, in the European McDonald’s, you can have beer, too! cheers! 🙂 xoxoxo
This looks so good. I love apple cake, the addition of the beer and cider looks yummy. Pour some in, take a sip…my kind of baking!
Thank you Gretchen! I had to use the beer in the recipe and it really turned out great!! And I do recommend Redd’s Apple Ale cold as ice on a hot summer day!!! 🙂
It was a good cake. Let them eat Cake.
Wow gorgeous cake Amy. …
Thank you so much Chitra!! 🙂