Apple Graham Cracker Coffee Cake

Photo: Lady Catherine Gourmet

Ingredients

For the Apples:

6 large apples – peeled and sliced

Dashes of cinnamon

Dash of nutmeg

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 Zest of lemon

1/2 Juice of lemon

For the Cake:

2 cups all-purpose flour – sifted

1/2 cup of sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

1/2 Juice of lemon

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup butter milk

Graham Cracker Crumb Topping:

4 sheets of graham crackers

5 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons dark brown sugar

Preparation

Preheat Oven 350 degrees:

In a large bowl combine the apples and all of the apple ingredients and let them sit in the bowl for about 1 hour.

In a separate bowl combine the sifted flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.

Drain the juice from the apple bowl and reserve it for later.

In a separate smaller bowl combine the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla, lemon juice and the reserved liquid from the apples. Mix together well and then add to the dry ingredients and mix well.

Butter a baking pan and line the bottom with the apples. Top the apples with the cake batter.

In a small saucepan melt the butter with the brown sugar and crumble the graham crackers in the melted butter and brown sugar. Sprinkle this on top of the cake batter.

Bake for about 35-40 minutes or until the tooth pick test comes out clean.