Old-fashioned apple cake
For 4 servings
Apple Compote ingredients
300 g Apples
30 g sugar
1 knife tip of vanilla powder
1 knife tip of cinnamon
1 knife tip cardamom
100 ml water
Macaroons ingredients
100g almond flour
120 g powdered sugar
1 egg white
Caramelised breadcrumbs:
150 g breadcrumbs
85 g sugar
75 g butter
Topping ingredient
200 ml of cream
Cut the apples in cubes and bring them to boil together with the other ingredients for the compote. After that, let it simmer for 30 minutes more. Stir it a few times while it’s boiling.
For the macaroons mix almond flour and powdered sugar until it becomes one unit. Mix the egg white in til it gets one mass. Fill it in a piping bag and make about 30 drops with a size of a 2 Euro coin. Bake it in a preheated oven at 150 degrees. Let it cool on the sheet.
Melt the butter in a pan and sauté the breadcrumbs for a few minutes. Then add the sugar and caramelise while stirring constantly until its golden brown. Let it cool on the sheet
Whip the cream and put the apple compote, macaroons and rasp in layers in a large glass bowl. Finish with a layer of caramelised breadcrumbs and then put the cream on. Decorate with the rest of caramelised breadcrumbs.