Ingredients

Streusel Topping

• 1/2 cup (65 grams) all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup (55 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons (40 grams) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 1/2 cup (50 grams) toasted and coarsely chopped nuts (can use almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts or pecans)

Batter

• 3 cups of diced apples (either delicious, cortland, macintosh, honey crisp, empire, spartan apples)
• 1 cup of flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/4 cup of vegetable oil (canola)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• Zest of 1 orange
• 3 large apples (sliced for top of cake)

Note: For Keto (low carb diet) substitute 1 cup of flour for 1/2 cup of gluten free flour mixture and 1/2 cup of Almond flour. Instead of 2 eggs + 1 yolk substitute with 3 egg white, whipped to soft peaks and add 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tarter along with 1 egg yolk. For the topping use Splenda instead of brown sugar and use gluten free flour mixture.

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Topping

Put flour, cinnamon, salt and brown sugar into a bowl. Cut in cold butter and with your hands combining until mixture resembles a coarse meal. Mix in the nuts. Set aside

Batter

1. Mixture 1: In a bowl combine eggs and sugar and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy
2. Mixture 2: Take 2 cups of apples and put in a food processor and pulse to make small pieces. Put into a bowl and add the remaining apple pieces and orange zest
3. Mixture 3: Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl
4. Combine mixture 1 and 2 together. Then stir in mixture 3 (flour combination) a little at a time to the combined mixture 1 and 2
5. Add 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and stir
6. Grease and flour a spring form pan
7. Pour batter into pan
8. Slice your 3 large apples and arrange on top of the batter
   

   
9. Sprinkle topping mixture over apples
10. Bake in a spring form pan (1 hour) or until toothpick comes out clean

Enjoy