Hungarian Almas Pite (Apple Cake)

Apple cake is a popular dessert produced with the main ingredient of apples. Such a cake is made through the process of slicing this sweet fruit to add fragrance to a plain cake base. Traditional apple cakes go a step further by including various spices such as nutmeg or cinnamon, which give a unique flavor. Upon the addition of spices, the batter can also be accompanied by crushed nuts, the most popular being walnuts and almonds.

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1 How To Make The Dough:

2 Preheat the oven to 350 °F

3 Mix the melted butter together with sugar.

4 Add the milk and keep mixing until the sugar is melted completely.

5 Add eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder and mix to incorporate everything well.

6 Split the dough in half and pour one part of the mixture in a baking pan. Bake it for 20 minutes.

7 Apple Filling:

8 Shred the apples and cook them in butter with some sugar and cinnamon until the juices reduce. Remove the apples from the stove and let them cool.

9 When the first layer of pie is baked, remove it from the oven and add the apples, spreading them evenly over the entire surface.

10 Pour over the other half of the dough and return the pan to the oven.

11 Bake it for another 45 minutes.

12 Let the pie cool down. Dust the pie with powder sugar and cut it in squares.

Goes well with coffee or tea More..!