Sunken apple cake
Sponge batter, halved apples scored in fans — the cake that belongs to Sunday coffee.
- Time
- 1 h 15 min
- Effort:
- medium
- Season
- autumn
- vegetarian
- classic
- sweet
- Sunday
- batch-cook
Ingredients for 12 portions
150 gbutter
150 gsugar
3eggs
250 gplain flour
2 tspbaking powder
50 mlmilk
4apples
1lemons
1 pack(s)vanilla sugar
2 tbspicing sugar
The ingredients land on the shopping list as soon as the dish is in the week.
Possible allergens
Derived from the ingredients as they are typically composed.
- Cereals containing gluten
- Eggs
- Milk (incl. lactose)
Please check allergens and intolerances yourself — on the packaging, at the bakery, at the butcher's. Recipes change, and a list like this cannot take responsibility for that.
Nutrition per portion
Estimates computed from the ingredient list — with 12 portions per recipe.
| Energy | 277 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 4.5 g |
| Fat | 12.1 g |
| Carbohydrates | 36.2 g |
| of which sugar | 20.6 g |
| Fibre | 2.3 g |
| Salt | 0.2 g |
Computed with raw ingredients as bought. Cooking losses, peel, trimmings and what stays on the plate are not accounted for. Own dishes and ingredients “to taste” have no values.
Source: Max Rubner-Institut (2025), Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS) version 4.0, CC BY 4.0. The mapping of ingredients to BLS foods and the piece weights are the operator's own.
Estimates, not lab values — not a basis for medically prescribed meal plans.
Method
- 1
Beat the butter with the sugar and vanilla sugar until fluffy, beat in the eggs one at a time.
- 2
Mix the flour with the baking powder, stir in alternately with the milk, fill into a greased springform tin.
- 3
Peel, halve and core the apples, score the rounded side in a fan, squeeze lemon over, press into the batter.
- 4
Bake at 180 °C for 45–50 minutes, cool, dust with icing sugar.