Recipe of Award-winning Szarlotka cake

Szarlotka cake.

You can have Szarlotka cake using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Szarlotka cake

1. It's 250 g of plain flour, plus extra for dusting.
2. You need 3/4 tsp of baking powder.
3. It's 125 g of unsalted butter, cut into pieces.
4. It's of Plus extra for greasing.
5. Prepare 200 g of golden caster sugar.
6. It's 1 of egg yolk.
7. It's 1 of egg.
8. It's 1 tbsp of lemon zest.
9. Prepare of For filling........
10. Prepare 1 kg of large cooking Apple / Granny Smith Apple.
11. It's 2 tbsp of soft brown sugar.
12. It's 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.

Szarlotka cake instructions

1. Preheat oven 180/ 160 fan Combine the flour, sugar and baking powder cut butter (run into flour with fingers) work in egg and egg yolk, the dough be crumbly cover and refrigerate for 30 minute.
2. Reserve 1/3 of the crust, pat the remaining 2/3 into 9 inch cake tin. Coving bottom and side. In a pan add the Apple, cinnamon, lemon juice, sugar, let it simmer for minutes. Leave it aside to cool.
3. Cover the pastry with Apple mixture. Crumble the remaining 1/3 crust over the Apple. Bake for about 50 minutes, until crust is lightly brown..
4. Note: you could add some ground almond. jams/ walnut on the crust before the cake.