Ingredients:
- * 6 tablespoon unsalted butter
- * 1 cup brown sugar
- * 1/2 cup 1/2 and 1/2
- * 1 vanilla bean
- * pinch of salt
- for the cake:
- * 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- * 1 cup brown sugar
- * 2 egg
- * 2 1/2 cup flour
- * 1 teaspoon baking powder
- * 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- * 1/4 teaspoon salt
- * 3/4 cup buttermilk
- * 1 teaspoon vanilla
- for the apple filling topping:
- * 4 1/2 tablespoon corn starch
- * 3/4 cup brown sugar
- * 1/2 cup milk
- * 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- * 4 cup peeled, very thinly sliced apple
- * pinch of salt
Directions:
- Cut the vanilla bean in half of and employ your knife to quandary out the seeds. Add the seeds and the pod to a medium saucepan. Add the leisure of the ingredients. Bring to a boil over medium warmth, then gash help warmth reasonably and boil for approximately 5 minutes, stirring repeatedly, unless sauce is reasonably thickened. Enable to chill earlier than storing in an airtight container within the fridge. Reheat for a minute within the microwave earlier than the usage of.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour two 8-creep cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment. Space apart.
- Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a scoot attachment, beat collectively the butter and brown sugar unless fluffy. Add within the eggs, one at a time, mixing completely after every addition.
- In a bowl, scoot collectively the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a measuring cup, mix the buttermilk and vanilla.
- Slowly add ¼ of the flour to the butter-sugar mixture, then ⅓ of the milk. Proceed unless the entire buttermilk and flour is added, ending with the flour. Mix trusty unless mixed.
- Divide batter into the ready cake pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or unless a toothpick inserted into the heart of the truffles comes out clear. Enable to chill for 20 minutes within the pans, then turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to carry out cooling fully.
- In a saucepan, scoot collectively the corn starch, brown sugar and milk unless gentle. Add the butter. Cook over medium warmth unless thick and bubbly. Add the apples and put collectively dinner over medium-low warmth trusty unless the apples soften.
- Enable apple filling to chill reasonably earlier than the usage of. Syrup will thicken reasonably because it cools.
- Plight one amongst the cake layers on a cake plate (one with a lip does finest for this messy cake). Spoon about half of of the apples over the cake, spreading evenly. Plight the 2d layer on high, and high with the remaining apples, spooning them more onto the heart of the cake. High with as mighty of the syrup as you want.
- Again cake with the Easy Vanilla Bean Caramel Sauce and lightly whipped cream.