Swedish Apple Cake with Linda Lomelino

Hey guys! We are launching a new mini series here on youtube today. In the next few episodes we will be traveling around Sweden, exploring local food and cooking with friends. We are obsessed with crispy, seasonal apples so in this first episode we are traveling down to Halmstad to pick apples at a farm together with Linda Lomelino and then she bakes a classic Swedish apple cake for us. Hope you enjoy! Please leave us a comment letting us know what you think.

You can find Lindas cake recipe here below.
Also make sure to check out her beautiful photos on instagram: http://instagram.com/linda_lomelino/
And her site: http://callmecupcake.se

If you are looking for a healthier Apple Cake, try this one: https://www.greenkitchenstories.com/apple-cinnamon-tray-cake/

And if you would like to explore Swedish apple farms, we have compiled a little list here:

ppelgrden: B&B, caf and cider production run by an older couple. Located in Falkenberg, close to Halmstad. http://www.appelgardencafe.se/index2.html

Rosenhill: Organic fruit farm just outside of Stockholm where you can pick apples and make your own cider (season July October). Enjoy a nice fika and pick beautiful flowers to take home. Stockholm. http://www.rosenhill.nu/pages/english/english.html

Rudenstam: Large Apple farm in Smland, the caf only serves food made of local produce and their apple pie is well known and off course made out of apples from the farm. They have a farm shop, caf and own production of cider. Its beautifully located right by one of Swedens largest lakes, Vttern. https://www.rudenstam.se/gardsbutik/

Glorias ppelgrd: Apple farm in Skne in the south of Sweden. Here you can pick your own apples and eat an apple pie or lunch in the caf, the food is almost entirely made out of produce from the farm. They dont use nuts, gluten or lactose in the caf. There is also a B&B on the farm. http://gloriasappelgard.se/

Kiviks Musteri: Swedens first commercial fruit farm, also located in Skne in south of Sweden. ECO friendly and only Swedish apples. Guided tours, restaurant and farm shop. https://www.kiviksmusteri.se/en/


Linda Lomelinos Swedish Apple Cake

100 g softened butter
175 g sugar
1 large egg
75 g grated almond paste
1/2 tbsp lemon zest
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cardamom
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
180 g all purpose flour
pinch of salt
125 ml milk of choice, at room temp
3-4 small apples, cored and thinly sliced
1 tbsp sugar, to sprinkle
1 tbsp butter

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy with an electric mixer, about 3 minutes. Mix in the egg, milk, grated almond paste and lemon zest, using a spoon, until just combined.
In another bowl combine all dry ingredients and add the dry ingredients gradually, mixing until just smooth. Pour into a prepared pan.
Arrange the thinly sliced apples on top of the batter, as showed in the video. Sprinkle with sugar and dot with butter on each apple halves.
Place in the oven and bake at 175C / 350F for 35-40 minutes or until golden and a cake tester comes out clean. Serve with vanilla sauce.

Vanilla sauce
150 ml (2/3 cup) milk
150 ml (2/3 cup) heavy cream
1/2 vanilla bean
3 large egg yolks
3 tbsp sugar
Pour milk and cream into a saucepan. Scrape the seeds out of the vanilla bean and add seeds and bean to the saucepan. Cook over medium high heat until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat, put a lid on the pan and let stand for 5 minutes.
Discard the vanilla bean.
Prepare a bowl with a strainer on top. Put the bowl with the strainer inside in an ice bath if you want to speed up the cooling process. Keep this close by during the next steps.
In a medium bowl, whisk together yolks and sugar until mixture lightens slightly in color. Slowly pour about half of the hot milk mixture over the yolks while whisking. Pour everything back into the pan with the rest of the milk mixture. Put the pan over medium and while constantly stirring, heat until mixture thickens.
When the sauce has thickened, pour it through the strainer down into the bowl. Let cool, then cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge until completely cold.

A special thank you to Graeme Wylie for composing this music for us!
https://www.graemewylie.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greenkitchenstories
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkstories
Instagram: http://instagram.com/gkstories
http://www.greenkitchenstories.com/