Yogurt Apple Cake

This was the first cake I bake when I bought a new electric oven few years ago. The cake was failed that time because I totally don't have any knowledge on baking.

After few year, at least I know some basic skill on baking, so I try to bake this cake again. Yeah, I was successfully! ^^

I forget where the original recipe from, I have done some modification based on the original recipe, here is my modified recipe.

Ingredients:
250g Butter, 160g Sugar, 5 eggs, 135ml Yogurt (I am using Cranberry flavor Yogurt from Nutrigen Liteyo), 320g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp sodium bicarbonate, 3 apples cut into cubes, cinnamon powder, sultanas and rum.

Directions:
1. Soak sultanas with rum.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and sodium bicarbonate, set aside.
3. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
4. Add the egg one by one into (3). Cream until smooth and light.
5. Add (2) and yogurt alternately, mix till well blended.
6. Mix apples cubes, cinnamon powder and sultanas (do not include rum) into (5).
7. Pour the batter into a greased 9" round mold.
8. Bake at 180°C for 90 minutes. Test with skewer, the cake is ready when the skewer comes out clean.
9. Glaze the cake with apricot jams (or any flavor will do), set aside, allow the cake to cool. 

*Note: You might need to cover the cake with aluminium foil after baked around 40 - 50 minutes.

This cake taste good even after kept for one day.

French Apple Pie

This is my favorite baking--French Apple Pie.

This recipe adapter from Agnes Chang baking video.

Pastry：
200gm flour, sifted
100gm butter
60gm castor sugar, sifted
1pc egg yolk

Filling：
70gm butter
40gm castor sugar
1pc egg
70gm ground almond
20gm flour, sifted
3 pcs green apple, cut into pieces
2tsp marmalade

Directions：
1. Pastry
  a. Mix flour and butter.
  b. Add sifted castor sugar, continue mixing.
  c. Add egg yolk and mix.
  d. If failed to become dough, add a teaspoon of egg yolk and continue mixing. Repeat this step until it become dough.DO NOT add water into dough.
  e. Cut the dough into pieces, put into model.
2. Filling
  a. Mix butter and castor sugar.
  b. Add egg, mix well.
  c. Add ground almond and flour, continue to mix until the filling become“drop consistently”.
3. Pour the filling into the pie model (with pastry covered). Green apple put on top of the filling.
4. Bake for180°C, 35 – 40minutes.
5. Apply marmalade on the baked pie.

Chinese Version：[烘培。派] 法式苹果派，[烘培。派] 法式苹果派（2）

Green Apple Cinnamon Marmalade

Due to Taiwan's plasticize issue, I try to avoid processed food. So the first step, I try to do marmalade by myself.

Ingredients: 4 green apples, 1/2 Lemon, cinnamon, Sugars
Directions:

1. Clean the lemon, squeeze the juice, set aside
2. Green apple, peeled, cut into cubes, blend with blender.
3. Mix the blended green apple and lemon juice, boil it with medium heat.
4. Turn to low heat, add sugars and cinnamon. Keep boiling and stir constantly with wooden spoon.
5. Continue stir until the sauce become dense and creamy.
6. Bottling the marmalade, inverted half an hour*, and let cool.

* This step is to use the marmalade heat to kill bacteria in the bottle.

Chinese Version: 青苹果肉桂果酱

With similar step, you may try different favor. I tried Pineapple as well. However, I prefer Green Apple Cinnamon Marmalade the most.

This is my Pineapple Marmalade.

Chinese Version: 凤梨果酱

Apple Puff Pastry ~My all time favorite pastry~

Ingredients: Puff Pastry, eggs, apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon powder, potato wheat starch

Directions:
1. Apple, cut into cubes. Mix with sugar and cook until the apples soften.

2. Mix (1) with butter and potato wheat starch, cook until the water dries up.

3. Remove (2)  from heat before adding cinnamon powder, mix well, set aside.

4. Fill the puff pastry with apple filling, brush the edges with egg mixture.

5. Fold the puff pastry, pressed with a fork to seal.

6. Slightly cut the puff pastry with knife, brush the egg mixture evenly. 

7. Preheat the oven in 190 ° C, bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Chinese Version: 苹果千层派