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Glazed Apple Cake

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Covered Apple Cake (Gedeckter Apfelkuchen) is one of the cakes you’re sure to find in almost every single bakery across Germany. To make it, you line a springform pan with a sweet short pastry, fill the crust with a chunky cooked apple filling studded with raisins and flavored with cinnamon and lemon, and then use the same crust dough to make a lid for the cake. I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the precursor to America’s apple pie, though in this cake, even after baking, the pastry remains…

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Ingredients

• 2⅓ cups plus 1 Tbsp. (300g) all-purpose flour

• ¾ cup plus 1 Tbsp. (150g) granulated sugar, divided

• 1 tsp. baking powder

• Pinch of salt

• 1 stick plus 2½ Tbsp. (150g) unsalted European-style butter, softened

• 1 egg, at room temperature

• 6 large apples (2 pounds 10 oz. or 1.2kg)

• Juice of 1 lemon plus 2 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice

• 1¼ tsp. Lebkuchen Spice Mix

• 1 cup (99g) fresh cranberries

• ¼ cup (60ml) plus 2 tsp. water

• ¾ cup (75g) confectioners’ sugar

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