Irish Apple Cake
By: Yuna Wu
Published: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:02am

Ingredients




1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into bits
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
1 lrg egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup milk
2 lrg McIntosh apples
vanilla ice cream or whipped cream

Preparation

1 Combine flour, baking powder and stir well. 2 Blend in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.  3 Stir in 1 cup of the sugar, the eggs, and enough of the milk to form a soft, spreadable dough.  4 Spread half the dough in the bottom and up the sides of a buttered 9" glass pie plate, 1" deep. Peel, core and chop the apples into 1/2" pieces and mound up in the pie plate, and sprinkle with remaining sugar.  5 Dab the remaining dough over the apples and spread as evenly as possible.  6 Bake cake at 350F for 50 minutes or until golden.