Another recipe from my mother-in-law’s recipe book. My husband decided to include it in the cookbook that he published on behalf of his mom because of a small note in her recipes’ notebook that read, “Bake it – very good!”
Last year we gave a copy of Alma’s cookbook to a friend of ours, whose wife later emailed me “It’s true! I made it and it’s really good!”
Ingredients:
(serves 8) F W V B
- 3 lb. organic golden apples
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of whole-wheat all-purpose flour
- 4 oz. of amaretto cookies
- 3 Tbsp. organic sugar
- 1 cup of warm milk
- 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter (+ some for greasing the cake pan)
- 1 Tsp. cocoa powder
- 1 lemon
Preheat the oven at 380 F.
Peel and grate the apples in a mixing bowl.
In a small bowl, beat the eggs and stir in the cocoa powder and the sugar.
Warm up the milk and use it to soak the amaretto cookies.
Mix all these ingredients with the apples, adding the grated rind of one lemon and the flour. Stir well to combine the ingredients.
Grease a 12-inch round cake pan with butter, dust with some flour, put the cake mixture in the pan and level it with a spatula. Cut the butter into small pieces that you will scatter evenly on top of the mixture, and bake at 380 F for about 1 hour.