Recipe - French Apple Cake With Apricot Glaze

2 tablespoon Margarine
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 cup White flour
2 One half pt Baking powder
1 cup Skim milk mixed with 1 ts
6 Granny Smith apples
1 TOPPING
1/3 cup Brown sugar
One half teaspoon Cinnamon
One fourth teaspoon Freshly ground nutmeg
3 tablespoon Margarine, no salt
1 GLAZE
One half cup Apricot jam
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
1 About 1 tsp water

Method: Preheat oven to 350# F. Spray a 9" x 12" baking dish with a
nonstick spray Cream margarine with sugar. Beat in egg. Sift together dry
ingredients. into egg mixture alternating with milk and vanilla. In food
processor, pro egg with sugar until well mixed. Add margarine and process
and then milk. dry ingredients into processor and pulse 3 or 4 times, just
until mixed. ( wash processor reserve for next step.) Spread batter
evenly into prepare dish.

Top with fruit. Mix topping ingredients together in food processor or mixe
Dot over top of cake. Bake 30 ~ 40 minutes or until skewer comes out clean
Cool completely.

For glaze, heat together apricot jam, lemon juice and water. Strain into s
saucepan or glass measuring jug. Heat on top of stove or in microwave unti
boiling and slightly reduced. If reduced too much, add a bit more water.
onto completely cooled cake with pastry brush. Serve and enjoy.

Nutritional value per servings: 253 calories, 3.8 g protein (6%), 54 g
carbohydrate (83%), 3 g total fat (11%) (.7 g saturated fat), 23 mg cholest
146 mg sodium.

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