When it comes to classic dessert flavor combinations, cinnamon and apple are near the top of the list. It’s not just for pies or cookies or muffins anymore – this recipe for Cinnamon Apple Sourdough Cake employees the combo perfectly. This deliciously moist cake is made from cinnamon sugar apples and a bit of sourdough discard. It is perfect for a simple fall dessert or for whenever you want to just feel cozy and at home.
When I made this cake, I was looking for a way to use up the extra apples that I bought to make my holiday apple pie. There was a deal on the apples and got way too many. So it is essentially a yellow cake with addition of the cinnamon and apple to make it something extra special. That said, you can make this same recipe with basically any filling you would make a fruit pie with. You can replace the apples with peaches, pears, nectarines. You could also go for a berry mixture, like blueberries or strawberries, but you will want to reduce the amount, as the extra moisture will result in a soggy cake.
For this recipe, it’s important to use the 9×9 baking dish (can be glass or metal) as well as the parchment paper. This cake, specifically the filling, gets pretty sticky. So using the parchment helps making the cake easy to serve up. the square baking dish allows for the cake to be the proper depth to bake just enough to stay moist.
This recipe calls for sourdough discard as the leavening agent. I do not have a specific recipe for creating your own sourdough discard to share with you. There are lots of places to purchase them online or you can start from your own. I actually have two different starters (Donkey and Albert) that I use alternatively for different things. There is a whole universe of sourdough starters out there, this recipe is simply to give you a means to utilize the “discard” whenever you don’t want to make a loaf of bread that day.
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Cinnamon Apple Sourdough Cake
Equipment
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs beaten
- 1 cup Fed Sourdough Discard
- ½ cup Oil
- 1 cup Flour
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tbsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
For the Apples
- 1 lb Green Apples peeled, cored and diced
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325degF.
- In a saute pan over medium heat, add butter. Once melted, add apples, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. Gently saute, then reduce heat and let simmer until batter is ready to bake.
- In a mixing bowl combine sugars, oil, eggs, and sourdough. Combine flour, cinnamon, salt and baking powder then add to mixing bowl. Thoroughly combine with wet ingredients.
- Line the baking dish with parchment paper. Pour batter into baking dish and shake out to settle evenly. Pour apple mixture over the top, evenly.
- Place in oven and bake for 50 minutes. Then check with toothpick to come out clean. Bake in 5 minutes increments until cooked through.
- Remove from oven but allow to cool in the baking dish for 30 minutes. Then remove from dish (using parchment paper). Slice and serve still slightly warm.
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