Apple Coffee Cake!
Monday, November 14th, 2011
One of my favorite wrinkles is apple coffee cake. Try making it next time you meet up with someone from Christian Mingle. Coffee cake by itself is a little bit too heavy in my opinion. The taste is too strong. I like coffee as a flavoring, but I feel like it needs a little something else. With apples, the coffee acts as more of a spice than a dominant flavor. I use only a little bit of coffee and let the apples take over most of the taste. Sometimes I even add a little bit of vanilla, cinnamon, and cardamom if I am feeling adventurous.
Another of my favorites is apple crumble cake. Another suggestion when you are seeing someone from Christian Mingle. I cannot resist anything with sugar crusted on top, and this type of apple cake delivers abundant crusted sugar. The key is to make the crust perfect. You want just enough brown sugar and you need to have it caramelized to just the right degree. If it is too crunchy, it gets a little bit chewy. If it isn’t caramelized enough, it doesn’t have the nice crispy flavor that makes this cake so good. It definitely takes a little bit of trial and error to get it just right, but it is worth the effort. The results are to die for.
Of course, sometimes a fluffier apple cake is good. I sort of like to blur the distinctions between cakes, pies and tarts. Sometimes having a layer of apple slivers whipped into cream on top of the cake is absolutely delicious. You can even make apple meringue if you’re feeling adventurous.
