Here’s a classic Italian Apple Cake recipe—soft, tender, and full of sweet apple flavor. 🍏🍰
🍎 Italian Apple Cake (Torta di Mele)
Ingredients (8–10 servings)
- 3 medium apples (Granny Smith or Fuji), peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup milk
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil or melted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Optional: powdered sugar for dusting
👩🍳 Instructions
1️⃣ Preheat oven & prepare pan
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan or line with parchment paper.
2️⃣ Mix dry ingredients
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
3️⃣ Mix wet ingredients
- In another bowl, beat eggs, sugar, milk, oil, vanilla, and lemon zest until smooth.
4️⃣ Combine
- Gradually stir dry ingredients into wet mixture until just combined.
- Fold in sliced apples, reserving a few for topping.
5️⃣ Bake
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Arrange remaining apple slices on top.
- Bake 35–45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
6️⃣ Cool & serve
- Let cool for 10–15 minutes.
- Optional: dust with powdered sugar before serving.
💡 Tips
- For extra flavor, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the top before baking.
- Serve warm with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, or a drizzle of honey.
- Apples can be mixed varieties for more depth in flavor.
If you want, I can also share a one-bowl, rustic Italian apple cake recipe that takes under 10 minutes prep and is soft, moist, and naturally sweet. 🍏
