Editor’s Note: The cutting board giveaway will be later in the week).
This is an inspired Swedish Apple Dessert. It’s not quite a cake, not quite a pie, and for this reason, I decided to bake it in mason jars. You may notice, I’m getting very comfortable baking in jars.
This special apple dessert is called apple cake over at published by Ewa who lives in Seattle, and is originally from Sweden. Ewa, pronounced Eva, wrote a glowing post about this which drew me in.I chose this as part of the Secret Recipe Club event. Each month we are assigned a blog and we can choose any recipe we want to recreate
I chose this not quite apple because the recipe was very unusual. I bake a lot and I’ve never seen a recipe like this before. It’s not really a cake, because there is no cake batter, and it’s not a pie, because there is no pie dough. It’s not a cobbler and it’s not a crisp. The dough is butter, flour and sugar, but no liquid. It’s mixed together, refrigerated and rolled out and then placed as a topping over the apples.
As I was making the dough, I couldn’t figure out why there wasn’t any liquid added into the batter, but it works. It’s delicious and buttery. I’ve made it twice, the first time, sticking to the original recipe, which turned out to be too sweet for me, and the second time I put it in jars and cut the sugar by 2 tablespoons.
This is an easy dessert for anyone who is afraid to bake. You can make the recipe the way Ewa did and bake it one baking dish, or do it individually in jars. I used half pint jars. I wrote about baking jars in my I’m hooked. The recipe will make 8 half pint jars or one 9 inch cake pan.
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