Apple Cake with Custard | Grandma’s Cake Recipes

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Apple Cake with Custard | Grandma’s Cake Recipes

Inhalt

    Craving Grandma’s apple cake with custard and streusel again? With this recipe, you can easily make it yourself.

    Nutritional values per serving

    Ergibt 12 Portionen
    Kalorien 296
    Kohlenhydrate 40 g
    Fette 12.9 g
    Fiber 2.8 g
    Protein 5 g

    ZUTATEN

    Portionen

    • Shortcrust pastry

    • 23.333 g flour
    • 4.1667 g coconut blossom sugar
    • 2.5 g applesauce
    • 0.0833 tsp vanilla extract
    • 0.0833 pinch of salt
    • 11.667 g vegan butter (cold!)
    • If the dough is too dry: add a little more applesauce

    • Apple filling

    • 75 g tart apples (or about 650 g chopped)
    • 0.125 tbsp lemon juice
    • 0.125 tbsp coconut blossom sugar
    • 0.1667 tbsp applesauce
    • 0.0833 pinch cinnamon (optional)

    • Custard

    • 41.6667 ml vanilla soy milk
    • Sweetener to taste (if the vanilla milk is unsweetened)
    • 3.333 g cornstarch
    • 0.0833 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
    • 0.0833 pinch of salt
    • optional: a pinch of turmeric for a yellow vanilla color

    • Topping

    • 4.1667 g oats
    • 2.083 g chopped nuts
    • 0.0833 tbsp coconut oil
    • 0.0833 tbsp maple syrup
    • 0.0416 tsp cinnamon

    • Optional

    • Other spices such as cardamom or dried fruits like raisins add a special touch to your apple cake with custard.

    • Notes

    • Missing an ingredient? No problem! Below you’ll find a substitution table with easy alternatives for the listed ingredients!
    • If you want real streusel like Grandma’s, read below to see how it’s done!

    Instructions

    1

    Prepare the dough for the apple cake with custard:

    a. Line a 24 cm springform pan with baking paper.

    b. Mix all the ingredients for the crust except the butter. Then add the cold (!) butter and knead until a shortcrust forms. Knead as briefly as possible to prevent the dough from getting too warm.

    c. Press the dough into the baking pan to form a base with a 4–5 cm edge. If it’s too sticky, chill the dough again. Very important: press the dough firmly into place!

    d. Poke holes in the base with a fork and chill the pan while preparing the rest.
    2

    Prepare the apple filling:

    a. Wash, peel, and core the apples, then cut them into roughly 1 cm cubes.

    b. Combine the apple pieces with lemon juice, applesauce, sugar, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Mix well, cover, and set aside.
    3

    Now for the custard:

    a. Heat 400 ml of milk in a saucepan over low to medium heat, stirring occasionally.

    b. While heating, mix the remaining 100 ml of milk with cornstarch, sugar, vanilla extract, salt, and optional turmeric until smooth.

    c. Once the milk steams, whisk in the cornstarch mixture vigorously.

    d. Bring the custard to a brief boil while stirring until it thickens.

    e. Remove from heat, cover with plastic wrap to prevent a skin from forming, and let cool for a few minutes.
    4

    Now for the topping:

    Mix all topping ingredients – briefly heat the coconut oil first so it becomes liquid.
    5 Preheat the oven to 180°C (top/bottom heat).
    6 Remove the crust from the fridge and briefly whisk the custard. Pour the lukewarm (not hot!) custard onto the crust and smooth it out.
    7 Spread the apple cubes over the custard and sprinkle the topping on top.
    8 Bake the apple cake with custard for about 45 minutes on the middle rack. If it browns too early, cover with foil.
    9

    Once golden brown, remove the cake and let it cool in the pan on a rack. Important: don’t remove it too early or the custard might leak or tear.
    10 After about 30 minutes, remove the springform ring and let it cool completely. Serve as is or with vanilla ice cream or custard sauce.
    11

    Enjoy!

    Recipe Note

    If you need more tips & tricks for your apple cake, here’s everything you should know:

    Which apples are best for apple cake with custard?

    Think all apples are the same? Not quite. There are over 30,000 apple varieties worldwide – and they differ in flavor and baking properties.
    For this apple-custard cake, choose sweet-tart apples that aren’t too watery and won’t fall apart when baked.

    Our top 5 apple varieties for baking:

    • Boskoop (a classic, widely available)
    • Elstar
    • Jonagold
    • Cox Orange
    • Braeburn

    If you have an apple tree, feel free to use your own apples too.

    Grandma’s apple cake with vanilla custard and streusel

    As the days get cooler and the sunlight turns golden, autumn arrives – the perfect time for a juicy apple cake with streusel and custard.
    Although, to be honest, this cake tastes amazing any time of year.

    This simple apple cake reminds us of the ones Grandma used to bake. We’ve kept some of her secrets – like generous use of sugar and fat – but modernized others. Our quick shortcrust apple cake is completely vegan, and we’ve adjusted some ingredients for a better nutritional balance. But honestly, sometimes that’s secondary. For the best apple cake with vanilla custard, we’re happy to look the other way.

    And if you don’t have a springform pan, maybe Grandma will lend you hers – just make sure to pay her back with a slice of your delicious cake!

    The world’s best streusel

    If you prefer traditional crumb topping instead of the oat-nut mix, here’s the ultimate streusel recipe (warning: sugar overload ahead):
    Knead together 250 g flour, 125 g sugar, 125 g vegan butter or margarine, and 1 packet of vanilla sugar until crumbly. Form the dough into a ball and crumble it over your cake until evenly covered.

    Substitution table

    Sometimes you want to bake a recipe but don’t have every ingredient. Here’s a table of easy swaps to make the apple custard cake your own!

    • Flour → oat flour, gluten-free flours
    • Coconut blossom sugar (in dough) → applesauce (be careful not to add too much moisture) or other sugars
    • Applesauce → other fruit purées
    • Vanilla extract → fresh vanilla bean, vanilla sugar
    • Vegan butter → margarine, dairy butter
    • Lemon juice → lime juice, apple juice
    • Cinnamon → omit or use other spices like cardamom
    • Vanilla soy milk → other vanilla plant milks or neutral milk alternatives with added vanilla extract and sweetener
    • Coconut blossom sugar (in custard) → other sugars
    • Oats → other cereal flakes
    • Coconut oil → other neutral oils or nut butter
    • Nuts → simply more oats

    Our apple cake is vegan, but you can use non-vegan ingredients if you like! If you’re watching the nutritional values, you can adjust the sugar accordingly.

    Inhalt

      ZUTATEN

      Portionen

      • Shortcrust pastry

      • 23.333 g flour
      • 4.1667 g coconut blossom sugar
      • 2.5 g applesauce
      • 0.0833 tsp vanilla extract
      • 0.0833 pinch of salt
      • 11.667 g vegan butter (cold!)
      • If the dough is too dry: add a little more applesauce

      • Apple filling

      • 75 g tart apples (or about 650 g chopped)
      • 0.125 tbsp lemon juice
      • 0.125 tbsp coconut blossom sugar
      • 0.1667 tbsp applesauce
      • 0.0833 pinch cinnamon (optional)

      • Custard

      • 41.6667 ml vanilla soy milk
      • Sweetener to taste (if the vanilla milk is unsweetened)
      • 3.333 g cornstarch
      • 0.0833 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
      • 0.0833 pinch of salt
      • optional: a pinch of turmeric for a yellow vanilla color

      • Topping

      • 4.1667 g oats
      • 2.083 g chopped nuts
      • 0.0833 tbsp coconut oil
      • 0.0833 tbsp maple syrup
      • 0.0416 tsp cinnamon

      • Optional

      • Other spices such as cardamom or dried fruits like raisins add a special touch to your apple cake with custard.

      • Notes

      • Missing an ingredient? No problem! Below you’ll find a substitution table with easy alternatives for the listed ingredients!
      • If you want real streusel like Grandma’s, read below to see how it’s done!

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      Frequently Asked Questions

      If you store the cake with apples, custard, and streusel in an airtight container in the fridge, it will keep for about 3 days. Alternatively, you can freeze it to make it last for several weeks.

      Of course! Depending on the size of your baking tray, you just need to increase the amount of ingredients. When baking, keep in mind that a tray-baked apple cake usually needs about 10–15 minutes less than the one made in a springform pan.

      Yes! The apple cake is quick and easy to make, even if the recipe looks extensive. Don’t worry — all the steps are clearly explained, making this apple custard cake recipe perfect even for beginners.

      When baking an apple cake, you can usually choose between a sponge cake base and a shortcrust pastry. We went with a thin shortcrust pastry because it pairs perfectly with the creamy custard and juicy apples.