Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Blackberry Apple Cake

Ingredients:
Granulated sugar for 9inch pan
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
6 tblsp. butter + 2 tblsp. cut into pieces
3/4 cup + 2 tblsp. light brown sugar
1/2 cup whole milk
2 large eggs
2 apples
1 cup blackberries
1/4 tsp. cinnamon

Directions:
Pre-heat oven 375 F.
Butter 9in pan and dust with granulated sugar
Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in bowl
Whist together melted butter, 3/4 cup brown sugar, milk and eggs in another bowl.
Whisk into flour mixture
Spread batter evenly into prepared pan.  Arrange apple wedges and blackberries over batter.
Gently press into batter
Combine remaining 2 tbls. brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sprinkle over fruit.
Dot with remaining 2 tbls. butter.
Bake for ~50 minutes

Recipe from Martha Stewart

Before dotting with cinnamon/sugar/butter and baking

I didn't have whole milk so I used half and half instead.  Also, still need to go out and buy some all-purpose flour so I ended up using whole wheat again as well.  This turned out better than I thought it would though it's more of an autumn food than a summer food.  One small thing I would change about the recipe is that you should probably cut up the remaining 2 tblsp. of butter into cubes and then keep that frozen.  Then, when the time comes to sprinkle the cinnamon/sugar mixture, you can just mix in the butter with it and THEN sprinkle all of it over the fruit.