Recipes

Apple Cardamom Cake – A favorite apple cake served on the Tea table at Rabbit Hill Inn.  Apple & Cardamom go together so well.  Have you ever used this spice? It has a unique slightly sweet & savory flavor – making it very versatile in the kitchen.   Some describe the flavor as slightly sweet, floral, and spicy.  Use it in baking, deserts, meats, poultry, seafood, and vegetable dishes.

As a bonus… Dr. Oz says that Cardamom is one of the FIVE SPICES TO INVIGORATE HEALTH & ENERGY!  So go forth and cook up a storm with cardamom. And let them eat cake

Yields a 9 x 11 cake

Ingredients for Cake:

¾ cup sugar                                         3 eggs

½ tsp vanilla                                        1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder                              1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp cardamom                                   ½ tsp salt

6 oz melted butter                                ¾ cup half + half

1 lb apples, peeled, cored, sliced

Method:

• Preheat oven to 350°F

• In a mixer, combine sugar and eggs and mix until light and slightly thickened.

• Add vanilla and mix well.

• Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cardamom, and salt. Mix until combined.

• While mixer is running, slowly add melted butter and half + half.

• Add apples to the batter.

• Spread into a greased and floured cake pan.  Bake for 25-35 minutes rotating halfway through the baking cycle.

• Cake is done when a knife inserted through the center comes out clean.

• Drizzle with cardamom icing (instructions below).

Ingredients for Cardamom Icing:

1 stick butter                                       2 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 tsp cardamom                                    ½ cup half + half

Method:

• Combine butter, confectioners’ sugar, and cardamom.

• Slowly add half + half a little at a time while mixing until your desired consistency is reached

• If you make the icing in advance, keep it refrigerated until it is ready to be used. Then remix it in a mixer.  You may need to add a bit more half + half.