Ingredients:
3 green apples,
1 cup granulated sugar,
8 Tbs. (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted,
1 egg,
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour,
1 tsp. baking soda,
1 tsp. ground cinnamon,
1/2 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg,
1/2 tsp. salt,
2 Tbs. granulated sugar mixed with 1 tsp. ground cinnamon.
Directions:
Preheat an oven to 325°F. Butter an 8-inch cake pan (I used a square pan, but round would also work.)
Core, peel and thinly slice the apples. In a bowl, whisk together the granulated sugar, butter and egg. Stir in two-thirds of the apple slices.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture, stirring until just blended. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. The batter and apple combo will be thick, and that's fine (it doesn't exactly "pour".) Arrange the remaining apple slices in a pattern on top, pressing them gently into the batter. Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar. Bake until the cake is golden and springy to the touch, about 50 minutes.
Transfer the pan to a wire rack and let the cake stand in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto the rack and let cool completely, about 2 hours. Serves one lunatic with a major sweet tooth, two people on a Sunday afternoon if they skip lunch, or about 4-6 well-adjusted and polite dinner guests.
