French Apple Cake

This French Apple Cake has been on my mind since quite some time now. Baking did take a back seat lately, since I have my hands full with the li’l one all the time. Today was a cloudy and breezy afternoon, and I told myself that I needed to take give myself a well deserved break and get on to do something therapeutic, like baking.

The li’l one is really fond of apples. I mean REALLY. That’s good news for a mother, I know. However, I need to think of disparate ways of adding them in the regular meals for her. It won’t take her long to throw tantrums if apples are handed to her as merely ‘apples’. So, sometimes it’s an apple pudding, sometimes a fruit salad, sometimes in the form of a tart, and today, in a cake.

Honestly, this French Apple Cake is one of those cakes that I am sure to repeat often. It has a beautiful buttery texture and is full of flavour. Plus this recipe is fabulously easy and is really simple to put together with the very basic ingredients that you have in the kitchen. The cake is not overly sweet but has absolute sweetness of the apples.

This recipe calls for three tablespoons of dark rum and it’s a key ingredient to retain the taste. But if you really must avoid alcohol, then you need to double up the quantity of vanilla. But I strongly recommend you stick to the addition of rum to make sure the cake remains as interesting.

I have served this as a plain dessert several times. Sometimes, we chose to eat it topped with some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Whichever way you decide to serve it, it will be impressive every time.