Cinnamon Apple Walnut Torte

I would assume a torte is a cake. A cake that may be made with little or no flour. After removing my torte from its baking pan, I don't think it looks like a cake at all... It seems to be more like a warm apple dessert to me and I think most of The Home Bakers members felt the same too.

Before this bake, I was excited baking this recipe. First of all, there is no butter in this cake! - HURRAY! Secondly, there is lots of apples in this cake! - Double HURRAY! Thirdly, plus walnuts and cranberries! - Triple HURRAY! Then, when everything seems so perfect for this bake, the cake fell apart when I removed it from its baking pan... Ops! Maybe no much "HURRAY" now...

This cinnamon apple walnut torte is the ninth The Home Bakers bake.THB is an baking event organised by my friend, Joyce from Kitchen Flavours. With a group of gorgeous ladies, we are baking all recipes from the book, "Coffee Cakes" by Lou Seibert Pappas until every recipe has been baked from this book.

Apart from the disappointment that I had seeing the cake is actually not a cake, this apple torte is actually very delicious to eat. The recipe suggests serving this with Greek yogurt, ice cream or whipped cream and I think it is as good and comforting to eat as it is. With a slightly crunchy sponge top, this lighter version of torte is very delicious and also a less guilty dessert to enjoy.
 

Eating my apple torte in a bowl...

I'm using an Aussie Granny Smith to bake this torte...

Making the batter and assembling the torte

Before and after baking...

A very lovely and warm dessert to enjoy

Being the rule of this event, only the host of the chosen bake can post the recipe in her blog post. Please visit Jasline's blog, Food Is My Life for the detailed recipe of this bake.

And, here are the notes and modifications that I made for my bake:

My ingredients list (which is 1/2 amount of the original recipe):

1 egg
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
18g cake flour
a pinch of salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
60g roughly chopped walnuts
1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/2 tbsp caster sugar

Using this amount of ingredients of the above recipe, I have baked my torte in a 15 cm skillet pan at 160°C fan forced for 20 min.

Modifications that I have made from the original:

• I have reduced the amount of brown sugar from 1/2 cup to 1/4 cup.
• I have replaced all-purpose flour with cake flour.
• I have used only 1 large Granny Smith apple for my bake. Instead of dicing it, I cut it into thin slices. Instead of mixing in the apples into the batter, I spread half of my batter into the prepared pan, arranged the apple slices like a pinwheel and then pour the rest of the batter on top of the apples.

Before I end this post, I have something very cool and retro to show...

Check out my very retro cake whisk

I found and bought this retro whisk in an Op shop. I like this whisk so much that I even bought a matching Chasseur bowl to compliment it. Call me a "chicken" because I wasn't brave enough to use this to whisk the eggs and sugar in this bake but I hope to use this in my future THB bakes that require only light whisking.

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Happy Baking

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