Apple and Black Tea Cake
By: Elga
Published: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 5:12am

Ingredients




300 grs Pink Lady apples
160 grs flour
130 grs sugar
50 mls extra virgin olive oil
4 teaspoons black tea flavored with flowers
2 eggs
1 packet packet of baking powder
butter

Preparation

1 Boil 100 ml of water; steep 3 teaspoons of the tea. Let cool. 2 Whisk the eggs with sugar until fluffy, add the cooled tea and oil. 3 Sift the flour with the baking powder and stir in by the spoonful.  4 Wash, peel and core apples. Slice thinly. 5 Pour the mixture into a buttered and floured 22-cm cake pan, and arrange the apples on top. Sprinkle the surface of the cake with the remaining tea leaves mixed with a tablespoon of sugar and bake at 180° Celsius for an hour. 6 Decorate with icing sugar.

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This cake has been defined by those who have tasted "a sweet taste of the past." I am still in the diet that I could not smell it, making me overwhelmed by the delicate and persistent scent ...