French Apple Cake
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Yep, you got it right. Not a French Apple Tart and not a French Apple Pie. A cake. And it is one of the most delicious cakes I’ve ever tried. I first tasted it 10 years ago in a small cake shop in Vladivostok (Far East of Russia). The shop was new and their cakes were new and very unusual too. At least once a week I spent some of my tiny journalist salary on a cup of coffee with a piece of cake. And the taste of that cake didn’t haze from my memory in 10 years. So I decided to try and recreate it.
It took some time to experiment with proportions, sweetness and sort of apples, by in the end I achieved the taste I remembered. Now I’m sharing this recipe with you - my precious French Apple Cake. It tastes like harmony.The base of the cake is hazelnut dacquoise - soft meringue with loads of nuts. The right proportion of hazelnut and almond makes this cake really delish. Almond is drier than hazelnut and it gives more structure to the dacquoise - the cake is less soggy and gooey.
Recipe:
(makes 8″ cake , cooking time 50 mins + 3 h to cool)
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