A soft, fragrant apple cake that’s incredibly easy to prepare. Discover Tiziana’s recipe — a timeless classic that wins you over at the very first bite. Download the recipe PDF!
A scent that fills the kitchen
There’s one dessert that more than any other can turn a house into a hug: apple cake. At Cascina Facelli, this dessert has a face and a heart — Tiziana’s.
Soft, moist, lemon-scented, and full of apple pieces, Tiziana’s cake has become a warm gesture of hospitality for our guests — a sweet made of simple ingredients and slow gestures. Her secret? A tried-and-true recipe, perfected through trial and error… until she found *the one*.
The perfect recipe: simple and genuine
Tiziana decided to share her version of homemade apple cake — a recipe that doesn’t need tricks or complicated techniques: just good ingredients, well balanced, and a touch of care.
📋 Ingredients:
800 g apples (Renette or yellow)
1 apple for decoration
3 eggs
250 g granulated sugar
70 g soft butter
200 ml milk
300 g all-purpose flour
1 sachet vanilla baking powder
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
👩🍳 Method:
Slice the apples thinly and toss them with lemon juice.
Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
Beat the yolks with the sugar, add the soft butter, then slowly add the milk.
Mix in the flour, baking powder, and lemon zest.
Fold in the whipped egg whites gently from bottom to top.
Add the apples and pour everything into a cake tin.
Decorate with additional apple slices and bake in a static oven at 180°C (356°F) for about 1 hour.
Always do the toothpick test!
A dessert that tells our story
Tiziana’s apple cake isn’t just a dessert. It’s a memory. A winter afternoon with floured hands. A slow breakfast with a view of the hills. A slice offered with a smile, maybe by a crackling fire.
For us at Cascina Facelli, cooking is never just technique: it’s emotion, hospitality, and family.
Come taste it in Alta Langa
Would you like to try the original version, with a cup of tea or hot coffee, surrounded by the quiet hills?
We’ll be waiting for you here, at Cascina Facelli, in the heart of Alta Langa — where every slice tells a story.
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