Chocolate – apple – nut cake with fine crumbles

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 350 g flour
• 250 g sugar
• 180 g butter or margarine
• 4 eggs
• 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 pkt. pudding powder, chocolate
• 100 g walnuts, not too finely ground
• 5 large apples (e.g. Boskop)
• 200 g sour cream or creme fraiche

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 15 minutes

Prepare the shortcrust pastry base with 100g butter, 200g flour, 1 egg, 70g sugar, and the baking powder and refrigerate for about 1 hour. In the meantime, process the remaining 150g flour, 80g sugar, and 80g butter into fine crumbles and refrigerate as well. Peel, core, and coarsely grate the apples. Mix the sour cream, 3 eggs, the custard powder, 100g sugar, vanilla sugar, and the walnuts into a dough. Roll out the shortcrust pastry and place in a 26cm springform pan, creating a 2cm-high rim. Spread the coarsely grated apples on the base and pour the chocolate-nut mixture over it (it will be a bit runny). Finally, scatter the fine crumbles loosely over the top. Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C for about 55-60 minutes.