Recipe - Apple Kuchen

One half cup Butter, melted
One half cup (+4tbs.) sugar
1 cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 Egg, beaten
8 lg Granny Smith apples,
Peeled, cored, cut in
Thick slices.
One fourth teaspoon Cinnamon
3 tablespoon Slivered almonds

Preheat oven to 350 F. In a large bowl, mix together the butter, One half cup
sugar, flour, baking powder, vanilla extract and egg.

Pour half the batter into a greased 8" square baking pan and spread to
cover bottom. In another lge. bowl, toss the apple slices with the
remaining 4 tbs. cugar and cinnamon, then place on top of the batter in the
baking pan.

Spread the remaining batter over the apple mixture. Bake for 20 minutes,
then sprinkle with almonds and bake for 30 min. more.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini