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Apple Cake - Torta Palmarola

very simple recipe medium time servings 6

Palmarola is a small island of the Mediterranean sea strategic positioned for the migration of birds. This cake recipe comes from a woman working at the Bird Observatory of the WWF in the 1974. Fede's mum got the recipe after a visit there long time ago!

Ingredients

- 4 apples

- 50g raisin

- 1 cup of regular flour

- 1 cup of whole wheat flour

- 1 cup of cane sugar

- 1 cup of oil (half oilve oil, half corn oil)

- 3 tablespoons of milk

- 2 eggs

- 1 tablespoon of rum

- a pinch of salt

- lemon peel

- 1 teaspoon of baking powder

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Peel and cut the 4 apples in 8 pieces. Then dice them thin in a bowl.

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Add 2tablespoons of cane sugar and grater some lemon peel. Add the raisins.

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In a small pan or in the microwave warm 1 cup of oil (half oilve oil, half corn oil) with 3 tablespoons of milk. Put them in a bowl with 1 cup of cane sugar and whip it until the sugar is melted.

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Add 1 cup of whole weat flour and mix.

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Divide the yolks from the egg whites (save them for later). Add the yolks, 1 tablespoon of rhum and a pinch of salt to the mixture and mix.

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Add 1 cup of regular flour and mix again. Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and mix.

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Whip the egg whites until they become a firm foam.

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Add the whites in the mixture gently, mixing by hands with a spoon. Prepare the cake pan. Spread 2 tablespoons of corn oil in your cake pan.

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Add 2 or 3 tablespoons of cane sugar and spread it everywhere in the pan. Add first the mixture on the bottom of the cake pan and on top the apples.

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Cook in the oven at 180°C (360F) for one hour or until the cake mixture is not wet (try to test it with a wood stick). If you are using an electric oven you might need to cook the cake a bit longer. Leave it cool at room temperature. Serve cold.

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