First of the Month Recipe - Torta alle Mela di Peppe
Today marks Day One of yet another new addition to My Bella Vita’s new home. While this timid chef can’t commit to a weekly recipe for What’s Cooking Wednesdays, I will offer at least one new recipe now and then, and it will be featured right here on the 1st of every month!
How lucky for me that this first, fell on Thursday, May 1. So, Happy Love Thursday, everyone, and Happy Labor Day, Italy!
We like to mix things up a bit at Il Cedro, and we tire easily of offering the same types of cakes and breakfast items. I should also add here that my honey loves to take a good recipe, tweak it a bit, and make it his own. Although, he warned me I’d have to pay him to post his recipe, I thought, for the sake of the blogosphere, to take my chances.
So, here you go.
Torta alle Mele di Peppe (Peppe’s Apple Cake)
Ingredients:
>> All-purpose flour (3/4 cup)
>> Sugar (1/2 cup)
>> Eggs (2)
>> Peanut Oil (1/4 cup)
>> Milk (just under 1/2 cup)
>> Baking Powder (3 tablespoons)
>> Vanilla Powder (1 tablespoon)
>> Apples (3 medium/large)
1. Wash and peel the apples. Cut 1 1/2 apples into cubes to put into the batter, and slice 1 1/2 apples into slivers to place on top of the cake.
2. In a large bowl, mix the sugar and eggs.
3. Add the oil and continue to mix.
4. Add the flour and milk, continuing to mix the entire time.
5. Fold in the cubed apples using a large spoon. Do not use a mixer!
6. Pour the batter into the baking pan, and arrange the sliced apples on top.
7. Bake on 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
Buon Appetito and Happy LT!
15 responses to “First of the Month Recipe - Torta alle Mela di Peppe”
May 1st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
OH…that looks wonderful or as my Aunt June used to say, “Looks good enough to roll nekid in!” Think that will be dessert for my guests this weekend.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Ha, Jan! Your Aunt June was funny! Let me know how the cake turns out!
May 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Now that looks delicious! I’m sure my Dad would love it … I’ll try it this weekend
Thanks!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
YUM YUM YUM. What a baker you have there
May 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Oh and woohoo on the 1st of the Month recipe series!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Great, Janet! Enjoy!!
Michelle, ain’t he good?? And, thanks for the kuddos!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
What a yummy way to get some fruit into a cake!
May 1st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Cherrye, that looks so yummy! I may have to steal that one for our next girls night!!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I will take one large slice for me and 1 for Joe.:)
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 am
Yummy! What type of cake pan do you use? Must taste this one.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 am
Bellissimo!
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
Oh that looks great. I love apple cake! Looking forward to the next recipe.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:31 am
That looks yummy, Cherrye, considering that I don’t like apples in any of my warm deserts! But, still, it looks great.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
uh, wiping the drool from my keyboard Cherrye
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 am
I agree, Bongamom. It is healthy, right?
You should, Brooke! It is pretty tasty!
Joe,
Dee, we just use small round pan. (I’m not sure of the “inches,” as we bought it here…) Sometimes we use a bread pan, and I like it that way, too!
Thank you, Liz!
I’m trying to decide what to do next, Shan…I’ll have to look to your site for inspiration!
That’s ok, G. We’ll make something you’ll like next time!
Whatcha thinking?