Hazelnut Apple Cake

18 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • Hazelnut Apple Cake
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup ground hazelnuts (see instructions)
  • 3 cups thickly sliced apples (tart, or mix of tart and sweet)
  • 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground anise
  • 1 tablespoon velvet falernum (or rum)
  • Vanilla Ginger Buttercream Icing
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 stick salted butter
  • 4 tablespoons milk or almond milk
  • 1 teaspoon ginger pulp (see instructions)
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

  1. 1
    If you are grinding your own hazelnuts, boil them first and then rub off the skins before grinding them. That will remove much of the bitterness. I find that if you break the kernel in half the skin comes off more easily. Finely grind them in a food processor until you have a yield of one cup.
  2. 2
    Butter and flour a 9-inch tube ban, and heat oven to 350.
  3. 3
    Mix together flour, ground hazelnuts, salt, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and anise.
  4. 4
    In a second bowl, beat together the oil and sugar for 5 minutes. Add the eggs and beat until the mixture is creamy. Stir in velvet falernum.
  5. 5
    Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix together well. Add apples and coconut, and stir until evenly distributed.
  6. 6
    Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for approximately 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  7. 7
    Grate ginger using finest side of a box grater. You'll essentially get pulp - when you have 1 tsp of pulp, you have enough.
  8. 8
    Cream butter in a bowl, then add in powdered sugar and mix until no lumps remain.
  9. 9
    Add vanilla extract, ginger pulp, and milk or almond milk.
  10. 10
    When cake is cool, pour icing around the top.

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