Comforting Caramelized Apple Poundcake

Name: Comforting Caramelized Apple Poundcake
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 100 grams ◆Cake flour; 20 grams ◆Almond flour; 2 Eggs (L); 120 grams Unsalted butter; 50 grams Granulated sugar; 1 Caramelized Apples; 1 Walnuts, sliced almonds, etc. (optional); 2 tbsp Sugar; 4 tbsp Water; 1/2 tsp Rum

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I tried making this carefully without extra additives. As long as you beat the butter well, this cake is as good as done!
The best tasting poundcake is chilled in the refrigerator for a day, then brought to room temperature. The one day of rest helps the cake taste amazing! I think it's actually better than cake straight out of the oven (and straight of the fridge as well, of course) So please chill it and then bring it to room temperature.

If the butter won't return to room temperature fast enough, heat it over a hot water bath or quickly in the microwave. In either case, be absolutely sure not to let the butter melt.
If you place the eggs in warm water (not boiling hot water) they will come to room temperature.
If you leave the eggs out of the refrigerator for an hour, they'll come to room temperature. It might take longer in the winter. Recipe by Ayuna

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Ingredients

1 serving

For the poundcake batter:
100 grams◆Cake flour
20 grams◆Almond flour
2Eggs (L)
120 gramsUnsalted butter
50 gramsGranulated sugar
1Caramelized Apples
1Walnuts, sliced almonds, etc. (optional)
For the syrup:
2 tbspSugar
4 tbspWater
1/2 tspRum

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Steps

1

Preliminaries: Line the poundcake tin with glassine paper. If the pan has a nonstick finish or is made of silicone, grease it with vegetable oil.
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Preliminaries: Have the eggs and butter at room temperature. Sift the ◆ cake flour and almond flour together twice from a height to incorporate lots of air into them, even if it seems like a lot of work.
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Make the caramelized apples and leave to cool. See- make sure to cook off all the excess moisture that comes out of the apples.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/146241-caramelized-apple

Caramelized Apple
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Put the room temperature butter in a bowl and mix until it's glossy like mayonnaise. If the butter is at room temperature it will reach the mayonnaise-like stage right away.
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Add all the granulated sugar to the creamed butter at once. Beat with a handheld mixer until it's white and fluffy, about 10 minutes.
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After 10 minutes of beating, it will seem like the butter has increased in volume.
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Break an egg into a separate bowl and beat it very well before adding to the butter-sugar mixture. Use a handheld mixer for this again.
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Add the 2nd egg in the same way. If you add 2 eggs at once the batter may split. Cold eggs may make the batter split too.
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Add the caramelized apples and the ◆ sifted flours all at once. Mix by scooping up the batter from the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
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Turn the bowl counter-clockwise while scooping up the batter clockwise with a rubber spatula from the bottom of the bowl to mix. The batter in this photo is not mixed enough yet.
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Don't overmix the batter, but do mix it properly until it's glossy! When it's no longer floury and has turned shiny, stop mixing.
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Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin. To prevent the apples from sinking to the bottom, don't do the usual air-elimination step of dropping the pan from a height onto your work surface.
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Add some crushed walnuts, sliced almonds etc. to taste (optional).
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Bake for 20 minutes in a preheated 180°C oven, then lower the heat to 170°C and cover with aluminium foil and bake for another 20 minutes.
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While the cake is baking, make the syrup. Put the sugar and water in a small pan and mix. Bring to a boil, let cool and add the rum.
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When the cake is baked and has cooled enough that you can touch the pan, brush the surface evenly with the syrup. You don't have to use up all the syrup.
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After cooling the cake for a while, wrap it up in foil and rest in the refrigerator for a day. The cake can fall apart easily right down the middle, so handle it gently.
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The butter in the cake doesn't taste good unless it's chilled and hardened, so wait a day.
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When the cake is just out of the refrigerator it's hard and firm, so leave it at room temperature for a while before eating. It will be silky and moist.
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Apples and nuts go so well together. I like to add lots of walnuts personally.
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Here I added caramelized bananas instead of apples to make a caramelized banana poundcake. I topped it with chocolate chips.