The Rustic French Cake Recipe That Blows My Mind
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This French Apple Cake recipe is made from scratch with fresh apples, browned butter, crème fraîche, vanilla, and a small splash of bourbon. It’s a classic style of French apple cake with a high ratio of apples to batter, a deeply golden sugar crust, and a soft, buttery center that needs no frosting or glaze.
In this video, I’ll show you how to make French Apple Cake step by step, preparing the apples, creaming the cooled brown butter with sugar, building the crème fraîche cake batter, folding in the apples, and how to tell when an apple-heavy cake is fully baked. The bourbon is kept deliberately light at just one tablespoon, adding warmth without turning this into a bourbon cake. If you’re looking for a homemade apple cake, French apple dessert, brown butter apple cake, or an apple cake made with crème fraîche, this recipe covers the whole process from the first chopped apple to the finished golden cake.
The finished cake is baked in a 9-inch pan at 350°F (175°C) until the top is deeply golden and the apple-filled center is set. Serve it warm or at room temperature, with a spoonful of crème fraîche if you like. It’s the sort of apple cake that puts the fruit first... which is exactly where how they do it in Northern France in the fall.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - How to Prep Your Baking Pans
01:39 - The Dry Ingredients
02:09 - Peeling and prepping the apples
05:56 - Making the Brown Butter Batter
11:49 - Folding in the apples
14:14 - The magic topping and the oven
15:40 - Out of the oven and next steps
18:40 - Slicing and Serving
20:02 - Taste Test, Reaction, and Close Ups
20:55 - QR codes to the Free Recipe Card
#FrenchAppleCake #AppleCake #AppleCakeRecipe #FrenchDessert #BakingFromScratch
Kitchen in the Shire, specializing in the preservation of 20th-century American and international recipes, providing accessible step-by-step tutorials for novice and experienced bakers alike.
In this video, I’ll show you how to make French Apple Cake step by step, preparing the apples, creaming the cooled brown butter with sugar, building the crème fraîche cake batter, folding in the apples, and how to tell when an apple-heavy cake is fully baked. The bourbon is kept deliberately light at just one tablespoon, adding warmth without turning this into a bourbon cake. If you’re looking for a homemade apple cake, French apple dessert, brown butter apple cake, or an apple cake made with crème fraîche, this recipe covers the whole process from the first chopped apple to the finished golden cake.
The finished cake is baked in a 9-inch pan at 350°F (175°C) until the top is deeply golden and the apple-filled center is set. Serve it warm or at room temperature, with a spoonful of crème fraîche if you like. It’s the sort of apple cake that puts the fruit first... which is exactly where how they do it in Northern France in the fall.
FREE Recipe Card Download:
👉https://www.kitchenintheshire.com/public-recipe-library/french-farmhouse-apple-cake
Brown Butter Video:
👉https://youtu.be/R1KDy_FWkDI
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Real Life Human Narrator: Damon Webb
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - How to Prep Your Baking Pans
01:39 - The Dry Ingredients
02:09 - Peeling and prepping the apples
05:56 - Making the Brown Butter Batter
11:49 - Folding in the apples
14:14 - The magic topping and the oven
15:40 - Out of the oven and next steps
18:40 - Slicing and Serving
20:02 - Taste Test, Reaction, and Close Ups
20:55 - QR codes to the Free Recipe Card
#FrenchAppleCake #AppleCake #AppleCakeRecipe #FrenchDessert #BakingFromScratch
Kitchen in the Shire, specializing in the preservation of 20th-century American and international recipes, providing accessible step-by-step tutorials for novice and experienced bakers alike.
