Editorial: Kockums JernverkPublished: 2026-11-06

Apple cake with walnuts and almonds

Name: Apple cake with walnuts and almonds
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Cuisine: Swedish
Ingredients: 150 g soft butter, plus extra for the dish; 130 g caster sugar; 3 eggs; 100 g ground almonds; 75 g walnuts; 60 g plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp vanilla sugar or ½ tsp vanilla extract; A pinch of salt; 2–3 red apples; 1 tbsp melted butter; 1 tbsp caster sugar; Icing sugar, for dusting; Whipped cream or custard

Makes 8 slices · 1 hour 20 minutes · Round Kockums White oven dish

A moist cake of ground almonds and walnuts topped with thin apple slices in a spiral, baked in a round enamel oven dish. Serve warm with whipped cream or custard.

Apple cake with walnuts and almonds is a moist autumn bake: a batter of ground nuts topped with thin apple slices arranged in a spiral. Slice the apples thinly, 2–3 mm, so they soften and colour in the time it takes the cake to bake through.

Apple cake with thin apple slices arranged in a spiral in a round white enamel oven dish with a dark blue rim, with red apples, walnuts and a nutcracker around it

Ingredients

Makes 8 slices

150 g soft butter, plus extra for the dish
130 g caster sugar
3 eggs
100 g ground almonds
75 g walnuts
60 g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla sugar or ½ tsp vanilla extract
A pinch of salt
2–3 red apples
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp caster sugar
Icing sugar, for dusting

To serve

Whipped cream or custard

Method

Heat the oven to 175 °C. Butter the oven dish and dust it with a little flour.
Blitz the walnuts finely in a food processor, stopping before they turn to butter. Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time.
Mix the ground almonds, walnuts, flour, baking powder, vanilla and salt and fold into the batter. Spread it evenly in the dish.
Core the apples and cut them into 2–3 mm slices, leaving the skin on. Arrange them tightly in a spiral from the edge to the centre and press them in lightly. Brush with the melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake in the middle of the oven for 40–45 minutes, until golden and a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean.
Leave the cake to cool for 15 minutes, dust with icing sugar and serve warm with whipped cream or custard.

Why it works

Enamelled steel spreads the heat evenly around the whole dish, so the edge turns golden without the centre staying raw. The cake is served straight from the dish, and the enamel is unbothered by the acidity of the apples.