Apple Cake from Volos

A local apple cake from Volos.

Ingredients

• 200 gr. butter
• 300 gr. fine granulated sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 vanilla
• zest from 1 orange
• 220 gr. milk
• 500 gr. self raising flour of
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnut
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 4 apples cut into slices
• 1 teaspoon chopped cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/4 teaspoon clove grated
• 1/5 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 1/3 cup apricot jam
• 1 teaspoon cognac
• powdered sugar

Directions

1. Put the butter in a bowl and beat at high speed until fluffy.
2. Add the sugar and beat for 3-4 minutes, then add the eggs, one by one, to the mixture. Beat for 1 minute to neutralize the smell of the eggs.
3. Add the vanilla and the zest. We have mixed the flour with the baking powder and the salt and little by little and alternately with the milk we add to the mixture, mix. Add the raisins and the coarsely chopped walnut that we have mixed with a little flour so that they don't stick to the other part of our apple pie.
4. With a spatula, gently fold the mixture so that they enter the ingredients. Pour into a form where we have lined a parchment paper and circled the millets that have been cut into slices with the spices. We will bake in a preheated oven at 180°C. For about an hour.
5. When we take it out, let it cool and place it on a plate, heat the jam and add the cognac, brush our apple pie to make it shine. The only sprinkle with powdered sugar.