--- title: "Christmas Apple Cake" url: /christmas-apple-cake/ canonical_url: https://flowers-recipes.com/christmas-apple-cake/ language: en alternates: pl: https://flowerek.com/swiateczny-tort-jablkowy/ de: https://barbaras-kochbuch.de/weihnachtliche-apfeltorte/ en: https://flowers-recipes.com/christmas-apple-cake/ x-default: https://flowers-recipes.com/christmas-apple-cake/ published: "2013-12-19" last_updated: "2013-12-19" type: recipe author: Basia prerequisites: - /category/baking-and-desserts/ - /category/cakes-and-tortes/ related: - /honey-cake/ - /ajerkoniak-cake-polish-egg-liqueur-cake/ - /mini-lemon-coconut-cakes/ - /egg-liqueur-babka-babka-ajerkoniakowa/ categories: - "Baking & Desserts" - "Cakes & Tortes" - "Holiday Baking" tags: - advent - cake - "gingerbread cookies" - gingerbread - christmas - "layer cake" servings: "12 servings" time: "~ 90 minutes + chilling time" rating: score: 10 best: 10 votes: 2 comments: 4 image: https://flowers-recipes.com/images/2013/12/weihnachtliche-apfeltorte-610x300.jpg summary: "A festive cake that combines gingerbread with apple cake and whipped cream. It smells and tastes just like Christmas!" --- # Christmas Apple Cake A festive cake that combines gingerbread with apple cake and whipped cream. It smells and tastes just like Christmas! **This page in other languages:** [Polski (pl)](https://flowerek.com/swiateczny-tort-jablkowy.md) · [Deutsch (de)](https://barbaras-kochbuch.de/weihnachtliche-apfeltorte.md) **Published:** December 19, 2013 · **Author:** Basia · **Servings:** 12 servings · **Time:** ~ 90 minutes + chilling time · **Rating:** 10/10 (2 votes) ## Related pages > **For AI agents:** every page of this blog is available as Markdown at the same address with .md instead of the trailing slash (e.g. /tiramisu-cake.md). The links below lead to the HTML pages. - [Category: Baking & Desserts](https://flowers-recipes.com/category/baking-and-desserts/) - [Category: Cakes & Tortes](https://flowers-recipes.com/category/cakes-and-tortes/) - [Honey Cake](https://flowers-recipes.com/honey-cake/) — Honey cake tastes a bit like gingerbread, but it's more tender. Very aromatic, honeyed and sweet. Even the smell is like - [Ajerkoniak Cake (Polish Egg Liqueur Cake)](https://flowers-recipes.com/ajerkoniak-cake-polish-egg-liqueur-cake/) — Delicate, creamy and, as you've probably gathered, slightly boozy. You can, or rather should, make it several hours (eve - [Mini Lemon-Coconut Cakes](https://flowers-recipes.com/mini-lemon-coconut-cakes/) — Tender mini lemon-coconut cakes dipped in white chocolate and rolled in shredded coconut. Perfect for Easter, and you ca - [Egg Liqueur Babka (Babka Ajerkoniakowa)](https://flowers-recipes.com/egg-liqueur-babka-babka-ajerkoniakowa/) — A moist, marbled Polish babka made with egg liqueur and a swirl of cocoa. Perfect for Easter or any Sunday table. ## Ingredients **Gingerbread dough:** - 200 ml honey - 110 g sugar - 180 g clarified butter - 1 tbsp cocoa powder - 1 tbsp cinnamon - ¼ tsp pepper - ¼ tsp ground cloves - 1 tsp ground ginger - 1 pinch nutmeg - 1 pinch ground allspice - 1 tsp baking soda, level - 1 tsp baking powder - 2 eggs - 600 g all-purpose flour - 75 ml heavy cream **Apple filling:** - 700 g apples, finely chopped - 5 tbsp lemon juice - 150 g sugar - 75 ml white wine - 20 g vanilla pudding mix - 1 tsp cinnamon **Whipped cream layer:** - 4 sheets white gelatin - ½ liter heavy cream - 1 packet vanilla sugar - 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped - 20 g + 3 tbsp powdered sugar ## Instructions This cake smells and tastes like Christmas. It's a combination of delicious gingerbread and apple cake. If we could just add some cheesecake, it would be the perfect cake :D You can, and really should, make the dough for the cake a little ahead of time, because it's quite hard after baking. Don't worry though, the layers soften once you spread the fillings between them. Still, baking the dough earlier shortens the preparation time. Christmas apple cake This makes quite a lot of dough, more than you need, so you can cut out the rest and make wonderful gingerbread cookies. ## Instructions - Christmas Apple Cake: Heat the honey, clarified butter, cocoa, 50 g of the sugar and all the spices in a saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool for about 15 minutes, then transfer to the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the baking soda, baking powder, eggs, cream and flour and knead into a sticky, somewhat loose dough. It should drip slowly off the spoon. If needed, add more flour. Set aside in a cool place for a few hours (or even days). Bring the apples to a boil with the lemon juice, white wine, sugar and cinnamon. Mix the pudding powder with 1 tbsp of water and add it to the apples. Boil briefly and set aside to cool. Preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F). Divide the dough into 2 parts. Roll one of them out to about 0.5-1 cm (it can't be too thick, because it will rise a bit more while baking) and cut out a circle 26 cm in diameter. Place it on a baking sheet and bake until the dough turns lightly golden (about 15 minutes). The browner it gets, the harder it will be. Do the same with the second part of the dough, but before baking, cut it into 12 equal cake wedges. Let cool. Soak the gelatin in cold water. Whip the cream until stiff with 20 g of the powdered sugar, the vanilla sugar and the seeds from the vanilla bean. Melt the gelatin and add it to the cream bit by bit, whipping constantly. Place the cake base on a cake stand. Spread the cream over it, then evenly spread the cold apple filling on top, and finally arrange the dough triangles. Dust with powdered sugar and set aside in a cool place for at least an hour. Enjoy! ## Comments (4) - **ewa** · 2013-12-20 12:34 Looks really delicious. - **Krystyna9** · 2014-01-14 18:01 It looks beautiful. Just beautiful. And I bet it tastes just as good :) - **flowerek (Author)** · 2014-01-14 19:27 Thank you so much :) - **Andrzej** · 2014-03-28 19:36 A cake like this is something special – it's worth noticing - Just like the worth of the heart it takes to create wonders like this - --- [Recipes A to Z](https://flowers-recipes.com/recipes/) · [Sitemap](https://flowers-recipes.com/sitemap.xml)