Baking Autumn Apple Pie with Fresh Apples 🍎🥧

Cinnamon apple swirl cake, baked in a round or rectangular pan with layers of yogurt- or kefir-based batter, spiced apples and a brown sugar and cinnamon topping. The recipe lists the ingredients for a 20–24 cm pan and walks through preparing the apples with lemon juice, mixing the batter, assembling the layers, and baking at 175°C (350°F) for 50–70 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. The cake is served once slightly cooled.

• Preparing apples with lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon
• Mixing a medium-thick batter with yogurt or kefir
• Layering batter, cinnamon topping and apples in the pan
• Baking at 175°C (350°F) and checking doneness with a toothpick

🍎 Cinnamon Apple Swirl Cake Ingredients for a 20–24 cm pan 🧈 Batter: Butter — 110 g (melted & cooled) Sugar — 120 g (can mix white & brown 50/50) Eggs (large) — 2 Vanilla sugar — 10 g All-purpose flour — 240 g Baking powder — 8 g Baking soda — 1/4 tsp Salt — a pinch Yogurt or kefir — 150 ml (room temperature) 🍏 Apples with cinnamon: Apples — 5–6 (small) Sugar — 20 g Ground cinnamon — 4 g Lemon juice — 1 tbsp 🌪 Swirl topping: Brown sugar — 60 g Ground cinnamon — 5 g 👩‍🍳 Directions: 1. Prep the apples 🍏 Peel and cut the apples into cubes or slices. Drizzle with lemon juice, then mix with sugar and cinnamon. 👉 If the apples are too hard, bake them in the oven for 10 minutes while you prepare the batter. 2. Make the batter 🥣 Mix melted butter with sugar and vanilla sugar until smooth. Whisk in the eggs one at a time 🥚. Add yogurt (or kefir) and stir again. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Gently fold dry ingredients into the wet mixture. The batter should be medium-thick. 3. Assemble the cake 🏗 Grease or line the baking pan (20–24 cm round or 20×25 cm rectangular). Mix brown sugar and cinnamon for the swirl topping. Layer 1: half of the batter → sprinkle half the topping 🌪 → spread half the apples 🍏. Layer 2: repeat with the remaining batter → topping → apples. Finish with the rest of the sugar–cinnamon mix on top. 4. Bake 🔥 Place in a preheated oven at 175°C (350°F) and bake for 50–70 minutes. 👉 Check with a toothpick: it should come out clean from the center. 5. Cool & serve 🌸 Let the cake cool slightly, then remove it from the pan. Slice, serve, and enjoy with tea or coffee ☕💛. Hello dear friends! 👋 Autumn is here, and today we’re baking a warm and comforting apple pie with freshly picked apples from the orchard. 🍎🥧🍂 This cozy dessert is full of seasonal flavor and rustic charm, perfect for enjoying with tea on a crisp fall day. • How to prepare and slice fresh apples for the filling • Mixing a sweet, spiced apple filling the traditional way • Making a buttery, flaky crust from scratch • Baking until golden and serving a perfect autumn pie A simple recipe that captures the taste of fall and the comfort of village life. #ApplePie #AutumnBaking #VillageCooking #RusticDesserts #HomemadeRecipes #CountrysideKitchen