Apple Cake from Shortcrust Dough

Ingredients

• 700 g spelt flour type 1050
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 300 g butter
• 200 g coconut blossom sugar
• 1 vanilla pod
• 3 eggs (medium)
• 1 Organic lemon
• 1.25 kg tart apples
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tbsp honey
• 3 tbsp almond slivers

Instructions

1. 1.

   Mix flour and baking powder, add cold, diced butter and coconut blossom sugar. Split the vanilla pod lengthwise, scrape out the seeds and add them with the eggs to the flour mixture. Process everything into crumbs using a hand mixer’s dough hooks.

2. 2.

   Rinse the lemon hot, pat dry, grate the zest and squeeze the juice. Peel the apples, quarter them, remove cores and cut the quarters into finer strips. Toss the strips with lemon zest, 2 tbsp lemon juice, cinnamon and honey. Arrange apple strips in rows on the base of the crumb dough and sprinkle the remaining crumbs and almond slivers over them.

3. 3.

   Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (convection: 160 °C; gas: level 2–3) for about 40 minutes.