My mother, Faye Grant, has been making this Passover apple cake for Seder for years. It's the best apple cake you'll ever taste!
Ingredients
- vegetable oil: 1 cup
- white sugar: 1 cup
- eggs: 2 piece
- ½ cups matzo meal: 1 piece
- potato starch: 0.5 cup
- ground cinnamon: 2 tsp (divided)
- apples - peeled, cored and: 8 piece (sliced)
- brown sugar: 0.5 cup (or more if needed)
- ground nutmeg: 0.5 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C ). Grease a 9x13-inch glass baking dish.
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Beat oil, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well combined. Stir in matzo meal, potato starch, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon until incorporated. Set aside.
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Toss apples with brown sugar, remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and nutmeg in a separate large bowl.
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Layer 1/2 of the dough into the prepared baking dish. Pour apple mixture on top, then pat remaining dough over apples. Sprinkle with some brown sugar, if desired.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
