Recently, during an international discussion, I had a chance to think about Polish desserts. It wasn't an easy task. Do we have any desserts associated with our country like tiramisu and panna cotta with Italy or crème brulèe with France. Obviously, there are cakes. Cheese cake, Easter cake called mazurek, gingerbread and poppy seed cake are always eaten during our festivals.

I associate Polish desserts with fruit. In our country the seasonal fruits are so juicy and full of flavour that they consistently reign on summer and autumn tables. I associate Poland with strawberries, plums and apples.

The main ingredients of my desserts are just apples. All cakes with apples I know involve cutting and stewing the apples. For this cake you should add pieces of fresh and fragrant fruit cut in half. The recipe for this cake comes from http://moniamieszaigotuje.blogspot.com

Ingredients:
dough
6 apples
280g of flour
200g of butter
1.5 tablespoons of caster sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
1 egg
125g of vanilla fromage frails
icing
1 tablespoon of 18% cream
120g of caster sugar

Heat the oven up to 180C.
Peel the apples, cut them in half and remove the cores. Mix together the dry ingredients: the flour, caster sugar, vanilla sugar, and baking powder. Add the egg, vanilla fromage frais and butter. Knead the dough. Divide it in half. Cover a baking pan with one of the halves. Arrange the apples on top of it. Roll out the rest of the dough and cover the apples with it. Bake for 40 minutes. Make the icing with the cream and caster sugar. Cover the baked hot cake with it. Leave to cool down.

Enjoy your meal!

Try also:
Cake with pineapple
Recipe for a homelike aroma, i.e. a cake with wild cherries
Apple crumble