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Apple Ring Cake | Apple Ciambella

The apple ring cake or the apple ciambella gives you that much needed hug — it envelopes your senses with all that apple goodness, holds you tight with its fresh flavour and lush aroma, lifts you and promises to not let go. It’s Italian, you see. Bene, no?

Ingredients

  • 4 cooking apples
  • 4 eggs
  • 150 g caster sugar
  • 80 ml olive oil
  • 300 g plain flour
  • 250 g curd (natural yogurt)
  • 2 tspn baking powder
  • 1 tbspn orange zest (only the orange peel, without the bitter white pith)
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch cinnamon powder (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC (356ºF).

  2. Wash and peel the apples, then cut them in half, remove the core and slice them thinly.

  3. Beat the eggs and sugar until light and very foamy.

  4. To this mixture, one at a time, add and fold in, the flour and baking powder, curd, sliced apples, oil, orange zest, cinnamon and salt. Mix well until gleamy and smooth.

  5. Grease your ring mould with olive oil and dust it with flour.

  6. Pour the cake mixture in and bake for about 40 minutes.

  7. Serving: Serve warm or at room temperature.