Recipes / Desserts / Frying-pan apple cake
Dessert
Afternoon snack
Frying-pan apple cake
An Italian torta di mele made in a frying pan, with no oven: a yoghurt batter with grated apple and caramelised apple slices.
- Cooking
- 30–35 min
- Prep
- 15 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
Per serving
281 kcal
Protein · 9 %
6 g
Fat · 32 %
10 g
Carbs · 59 %
42 g
Estimate per serving, worked out ingredient by ingredient. The percentage is the share of the calories.
Ingredients
For 8 servings
- 2 eggs
- 100 g sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 0.5 tsp ground ginger
- 60 ml avocado or vegetable oil
- 120 ml milk
- 120 g fat-free natural Greek yoghurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 190 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 large apple (such as Honeycrisp), for grating
- For the pan
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1.5 tbsp light brown sugar
- 1 large apple, peeled and sliced
Step by step
- In a large bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar, ¾ teaspoon of cinnamon and the ginger, by hand or with an electric whisk, until frothy. Add the oil, vanilla, milk and yoghurt and whisk until there are no lumps.
- In another bowl, mix the flour and baking powder. Add them to the wet ingredients and whisk until smooth. Grate in a large apple and mix again.
- Grease a 23 cm non-stick frying pan with the butter. Sprinkle over the brown sugar and spread it out with a spoon. Arrange the apple slices on top and sprinkle with the remaining ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Pour the batter over the apples, cover and cook over a low heat (about 4 out of 10) for 30 to 35 minutes, until a cocktail stick comes out of the middle clean.
- Turn it out onto a plate and serve warm, with whipped cream or ice cream.