Recipe · Kitchen
Apple Kefir Tray Cake
A soft, fragrant apple tray cake that is a great way to use slightly sour kefir.

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Ingredients
- Slightly sour kefir300 ml
- Eggs2 gab.
- Sugar150 g
- Vegetable oil80 ml
- Wheat flour250 g
- Baking powder5 g
- Baking soda3 g
- Vanilla sugar8 g
- Apples400 g
- Cinnamon3 g
- Sugar for topping15 g
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Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C and line a 20 × 30 cm baking pan with parchment.
- Whisk the eggs with sugar, vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt.
- Add the kefir and vegetable oil and mix.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet mixture just until combined.
- Pour the batter into the pan. Peel and core the apples, slice them and arrange them on top.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
- Bake at 180 °C for about 35–40 minutes, until golden and a wooden skewer comes out clean.
- Cool for 10–15 minutes and slice.
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The acidity of the kefir is an advantage here: together with baking soda it helps make the batter light and airy.