Apple invisible cake - Gateau invisible

It is beautiful summer now in Tauranga. Lots of fruit is on season.... peach, plum, watermelon..... and apples.

I got lots of garden apples from neighbor.  I was thinking to make apple pie or apple crumble as usual. But I had look different idea for the apple baking...something using more apples, less butter....

I found recipe called Gateau invisible.... That is French apple cake.

This cake is made from lots of apples!! more than batter.
It is not rising and fluffy. The batter mixture is like the custard or pudding.
Fold the slices of apples into the batter. That process makes the layer of apples.

Apple invisible cake

6 apples weighing around 120g each

2 large eggs 

50g white sugar

70cc milk 

70g plain flour

50g melted butter

1 vanilla pod or 1 tsp vanilla extract

Icing sugar to dust on the top

Prepare
Shift plain flour.
Put baking paper on the cake tin.
Preheat oven at 180℃.

1. In a large bowl, whisk eggs and white sugar together.
2. Add milk and combine well.
3. Add shifted flour, combine well.
4. Add melted butter and vanilla, combine well.
Leave the bowl aside.
5. Peel apples, and slice thinly. It might better to use the slicer if you have one.

6. Add sliced apples into the mixture. Use a spatula and fold the apples into the mixture gently.  Try not to break the apples.

7. pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Try to make the layer of apples.
8. Bake it about 40 - 50 mins.

9. Cool it down. You can cut the cake when it get completely cooled down. It is better to leave it in the fridge at least 2 hours.
10. Dust icing sugar before serve.