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Aunt Beck’s Famous Two-Crust Apple Cake

Avatar photoRonnie Fein • Sep 7, 2012 (Updated: Sep 1, 2022)
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2 crust apple cake

This is my Aunt Beck, Rebecca Cohen’s, famous 2 crust cake rivaling my mother’s famous apple pie, both equally delicious.

2 crust apple cake

Aunt Beck’s Famous Two-Crust Apple Cake

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Servings

12 Servings

Ingredients

  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoon grated fresh orange peel optional
  • 3 pounds pie/cake apples peeled and sliced
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon if desired
  • 2-3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine cut into tiny pieces

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. To make the crust, beat the eggs, sugar, vegetable oil and orange juice together in a mixer set at medium speed for 1-2 minutes or until well mixed. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and orange peel, if used, and mix until a smooth, soft, uniform dough has formed, about 2-3 minutes. Cut the dough into two pieces, one piece twice as large as the other. Press the larger piece into the bottom and halfway up the sides of a 13”x9” pan (or roll the dough and fit it inside the pan). Make the filling: mix the apples, sugar, cinnamon, if used, and flour together in a bowl (the amount of flour depending on juiciness of the apples) and place the mixture over the dough in the pan. Dot the surface with butter. Roll the smaller piece of dough and place it on top. Press the edges to seal them. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until well browned.
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About Ronnie Fein

Ronnie Fein gave up a fast-track, high-pay job as an associate at a major Wall
Street law firm to become a freelance food and lifestyle writer. She never looked
back, no regrets. Over the years she has written for the food sections of daily
newspapers including Newsday, The Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate and
Greenwich Time, and for numerous publications including the New Jewish Voice,
Connecticut Bride, Connecticut Magazine, Jewish Woman Magazine, Westport
and Greenwich Magazines, Consumer’s Digest, New Canaan Advertiser and
others. She writes for on-line sites including The Jewish Week and JoyofKosher.
She has her own food blog, called Kitchen Vignettes, at www.ronniefein.com and
has been a guest blogger at Kveller.com, Koshereye.com,
ThisAmericanBite.com, KosherLikeMe.com, BeyondBubbe.com and
Culinate.com.
Ronnie is the author of four cookbooks: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cooking
Basics, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to American Cooking, Hip Kosher, and The
Modern Kosher Kitchen
. She was also a contributing editor to The New Cook’s
Catalogue, the 25th anniversary edition of the James Beard original.
Ronnie gives cooking demonstrations for large groups and operates the Ronnie
Fein School of Creative Cooking in Stamford, Connecticut, where she lives with
her husband. She has two married daughters and five grandchildren.

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  1. Barbara Klibanoff

    Nov 11, 2014 at 1:55 am

    when baking Aunt Beck’s two-crust apple/pie cake, should the top crust be pierced to let out steam as you would in a regular apple pie?

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  2. Ronnie Fein

    Sep 15, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Any vegetable oil would work, but I think olive oil flavor might be too strong and avocado oil is so expensive, not sure it’s value is out to best use here. I would use canola, peanut, safflower or soybean oil.

    Reply
  3. Tzipora Pollock

    Sep 14, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    Instead of vegetable oil, can you use safflower oil, olive oil, or avocado oil?

    Reply
  4. Ronnie Fein

    Sep 9, 2012 at 7:27 am

    Yes! When I freeze it, I thaw and then refresh for 15-20 minutes in a preheated 350 degree oven.

    Reply
  5. Aklein4

    Sep 9, 2012 at 1:32 am

    is this freezer-friendly?

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