Recipe: Baked in a tart pan, this cake can be breakfast or dessert
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Apple pie is one of my specialties, but even I don’t always want to spend the time to make one. Yet fall baking is all about apples, and there are myriad other ways to celebrate this wonderful fruit.
I went looking for something easy to put together, yet which has all the flavors of apple pie. The homey cake recipe here fits the bill pretty well. It could be served at brunch or for dessert, depending on how you dress it up. The crunchy top is a bonus.
Originally published in Food52’s “Baking” cookbook as Easy-As-Pie Apple Cake, this recipe was featured in the New York Times in 2015 in a roundup of new baking cookbooks.
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