Sweet Foods of the Dutch Shoemaker's Cake

By Elizabeth Kolbert

Updated October 10, 2023

Total Time
1 hour 35 minutes
Prep Time
25 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour 10 minutes
Rating
4(5)
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Ingredients

Yield:1 9-inch cake

  • 10 cooking apples, peeled, cored and cut into small chunks

  • ½ cup sugar, or to taste

  • 1 cup raisins

  • 5 tablespoons butter, melted

  • 4 egg yolks, lightly beaten

  • 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten

  • Butter for greasing the pan

  • 1 ½ cups toasted bread crumbs

  • Sweetened whipped cream, optional

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

  2. Step 2

    In a saucepan over a medium flame, heat the apples without water until very tender, periodically stirring. This requires supervision, otherwise they will burn.

  3. Step 3

    Mash the apples and taste them. Add sugar to taste. Add the raisins, melted butter and then the yolks. Gently fold in the egg whites and incorporate thoroughly.

  4. Step 4

    Butter a 9-inch springform pan and sprinkle with ½ cup of the bread crumbs to make an even coating. Pour half the apple mixture in the pan and sprinkle the top with another ½ cup of bread crumbs. Then add the remainder of the apple mixture and top with an even layer of the remaining bread crumbs. Bake for about 50 minutes until the cake is firm and light brown. Remove, cool and remove ring. Serve cut into wedges with whipped cream, if desired.

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Lynn

Turned out like stewed apples with toasted breadcrumbs. Tasty, but not a cake. I gave it about 20 mins longer as it wasn’t setting or browning. I wonder if i misunderstood the cooking temperature. It says180c so I adjusted it to 160c fan. Maybe the eggs would have created a cake at 180c fan - I can’t tell. I have a tasty pudding that didn’t need over an hour in the oven.

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