Wine Apple Cake (Wein-Apfelkuchen)

Ingredients:

Crust

Grease 28 cm (10½ inch)spring form with butter.

Crust: Combine all ingredients.  Press dough into bottom and up the sides of greased form.

Filling: Mix vanilla sugar, sugar and pudding powder into 1½ cups of wine.

In a sauce pan bring rest of wine to boil and add the pudding/wine mix gradually, stirring constantly. Bring up to a gentle boil and allow to thicken. Stir the apples into the wine mixture and pour into crust.

Preheat oven to 325ºF.  Bake for 80-90 minutes.

When cake has cooled, top with whipped cream and dust with cocoa.

125 g

Butter

125 g

Sugar

1

Egg

250 g

Flour

9 g

Vanilla Sugar

1 tsp

Baking Powder

Filling:

¾ liter

White Wine

9 g

Vanilla Sugar

250 g

Sugar

2

unsweetened Vanilla Puddings

2 lbs

Apples coarsely grated

Topping

200 ml

Whipped Cream

Cocoa

Use a mild table wine, to add to but not to overpower the taste!