Does anyone know a cake recipe that uses stewed apple/apple puree?

[deepandcrispandlummox]

We've got loads of it and I'd like to use some up.

[feastofsteven]

not quite a cake but apple strudel or apple crumble?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Lots of American recipes substitute apple sauce for fat. Look on www.allrecipes.com - they have an ingredients search.

[deepandcrispandlummox]

ah - apple crumble is a good idea. thank you. would still quite like a cake recipe as well, though.

[deepandcrispandlummox]

apple sauce for fat? how would that work? am checking that website - thanks again.

[walkinginawinterBundleland]

i made a lovely flapjack that had a thin layer of pureed apple in the centre

[deepandcrispandlummox]

ooh, that sounds good WIWBundleL. Do you have a recipe?

That allrecipes.com is a great site NCQ, although not a lot in the way of apple cake, sadly.

[walkinginawinterBundleland]

it's in a book at home, would be next week by time i look it up for you but if you can find a flapjack recipe, then push half into baking tin, then thinly spread pureed apple on top, then put rest of flapjack on top. i think it was in a book by jane clarke, who's a nutritionist (I think she does a daytime tv slot these days)

[NotQuiteCockney]

I don't know how well the apple sauce for fat thing works, I just know the Americans are mad for it. I do make a carrot cake that has crushed pineapple in it, which I think is what makes it so moist.

Oh, there's Eve pudding or whatever it's called. Never made it, but I've heard good things about it.

Here is a link, that I hope will work, to a list of 70 cakes with applesauce in them.

[NotQuiteCockney]

(Tip: Americans have applesauce as a normal ingredient. You can buy it in jars. But they write it as one word, not two.)

[walkinginawinterBundleland]

here, this looks similar to the one i described

[deepandcrispandlummox]

NCQ - thanks for that. I was typing it in as two different words. The imaginatively named Applesauce Cake II looks fantastic. Think i will make it this afternoon.

Bundle - flapjack recipe also looks good. Weekend baking also sorted.

Thanks so much.

[PrincessPlumPuddingHead]

another good thing to do is to make up a meringue mixture (60g sugar per large egg white) and put the apple puree in an ovenproof pyrex or something, cover with the meringue mixture and bake in a very low oven for at least a couple of hours. Hey presto, apple charlotte....

you'll probably need about 4 egg whites for enough mixture to cover enough puree for about 6-8 people

[NotQuiteCockney]

lummox, the really useful part of that site is, you can read other users' reviews of the recipes, including tips for changes, issues, whatever.

All my best baking recipes are from there, as I really like doing loaf-style American cakes with worthy sorts of ingredients.

[deepandcrispandlummox]

have just been surfing it - there are loads of good things. Now I just need a good site for converting US measurements in imperial. And to find out what shortening is!

[NotQuiteCockney]

shortening = lard (vegetarian lard, maybe?). You can use butter instead, I think.

Re: measurements, which ones are bugging you?

[sunchowder]

conversion.com !!

[sunchowder]

shortening is usually vegetable fat, Crisco is the brand over here that I will use if I have too. You can always use butter instead or plain lard.

[deepandcrispandlummox]

Thanks for that. The one that mostly bugs me (and even as I type this I'm wondering if I'm being very stupid) is cups - is there some easy equivalent measurement?

I'm also a big fan of loaf-type cakes and very pleased with that site. There's loads of really good stuff.

sunchowder - thanks for the converter and the translation. Another question, though, when an American recipe says applesauce does it mean just that - plain stewed apple, or would it normally have sugar added?

[bobbybob]

A cup is 250ml.

[deepandcrispandlummox]

Thank you bobbybob. Have realised that the best thing to do is try out some tea/coffee cups and see which one is 250 ml or thereabouts.

[NotQuiteCockney]

American applesauce will be without added sugar. But it will not be Bramley apples, or whatever is used as cooking apples here - it will be something that is reasonably edible plain. So you will need to sweeten the applesauce a bit, if it's made with those sorts of apples.

I find the site good, but a bit random. Lots of recipes involving butter-flavoured shortening. Which is like, um, what? Ewwww.

But yeah, I have a few cakes I make from there, over and over. Oh, and a recipe for really nice oatmeal cookies.

[zippimistletoes]

make an apple upside down cake

line a cake tin with greaseproof paper and butter it, put the apple in the base and pour rubbed in sponge cake mixture on top

when cooked turn onto a plate and serv with cream or custard warm

[sunchowder]

Just saw this and sorry I wasn't around, Lummox, our applesauce here is stewed and strained and whizzed in the food processor or blender. It comes in jars all done for you. I have made my own, need to add some lemon juice to keep the color. Hope the cake came out nice for you!