Apple Sage Cake - does that sound good to you?

15 years ago

I was watching one of the cooking shows and they made this. I must admit I had a 'yuck' moment. To me sage is a more savory herb, not a sweet baking spice but I could be wrong. What do you think?

Clare

Apple Sage Cake

Ingredients

Makes one 9-by-13-inch cake

Unsalted butter, for cake pan

3 large eggs

1 1/2 cups raw sugar

3/4 cup canola oil

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 cups shredded Granny Smith apples, peeled

1/4 cup loosely packed sage, finely chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan and line with parchment paper; set aside.

In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, and oil. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt; mix until well combined. Stir in apples and sage; mix until well combined.

Pour batter into baking pan and transfer to oven. Bake until a cake tester inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Let cool completely.

It was served this way.

Autumnal Parfait

Serves 6

2 sticks cinnamon

8 whole cloves

6 allspice berries

2 star anise

3 1/2 cups grade B maple syrup

1 cup sugar

1 (3-pound) sugar pumpkin, peeled, halved, seeds removed, and cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes

2 cups apple cider

1 cup heavy cream

1/4 teaspoon coarse salt

Canola oil, for frying

6 fresh sage leaves

Apple Sage Cake, cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes

Directions

Wrap 1 stick cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and star anise in a small piece of cheesecloth; using kitchen twine, tie to enclose. In a large saucepan, combine 1 cup water, 2 cups maple syrup, and sugar. Add spice packet and bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring, until sugar is dissolved. Add pumpkin and cover surface of liquid with a piece of parchment paper to keep pumpkin submerged. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, barely simmering, until pumpkin is tender and easily pierced with a paring knife, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove from heat and let candied pumpkin cool completely in cooking liquid.

Place apple cider in a medium saucepan. Add remaining cinnamon stick and place over medium-high heat. Cook until liquid has reduced to 1 1/2 cups, about 7 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick and discard; stir in remaining 1 1/2 cups maple syrup, heavy cream, and salt. Transfer mixture to a heated whipped cream canister filled with three cream chargers.

Fill a small skillet 1/8-inch high with canola oil; heat over medium heat. Add sage leaves. Cook, until crisp and fragrant, about 25 seconds; transfer to a paper towel-lined plate to drain.

In each of six parfait glasses, place 2 or 3 cubes of cake in the bottom of the glasses. Top with 3 pieces of candied pumpkin, 2 more cake cubes, and 3 more pieces of candied pumpkin. Drizzle some of the pumpkin cooking liquid over the parfait, and top with cream mixture. Garnish each parfait with a fried sage leaf and serve.

Here is a link that might be useful: Autumnal Parfait

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Comments (13)

compumom
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Nope! I love apples and don't mind sage, but blending the two into a dessert leaves me queasy!
jojoco
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Not me either. I could see using sage with pork chops and serving with sauteed apple slices, but not in a cake.
But who am I to say?
Jo
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lindac
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Sage cake with candied pumpkin? nope....that's being wierd for the sake of being wierd!
readinglady
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I guess I could see the possibility of infusing sugar with sage and then removing the sage and baking with the sugar. Not that I would do it, but it might be good. But 1/4 cup sage in that cake? It sounds terrible.

And the pumpkin is just adding insult to injury. A lot of trouble to cook something I wouldn't like nearly as well as a simple apple cake or pie.

Carol
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15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
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Cloud Swift
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
A quarter cup sounded really large to me too - even if sage in cake is okay which sounds odd to me. The whole thing reminds me of a pumpkin gingerbread trifle my DIL tried last week. A lot of work and to me the end result had too many tastes fighting with each other. The plain gingerbread with a bit of whipped cream or lemon sauce was better.

I think the whole idea of using my whip cream canister with hot contents and a triple charge sounds scary. The instructions that came with it certainly don't cover that kind of use (or abuse).
Lars
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Try heating some apple juice with sage and see how you like it. (Maybe add a bit of sugar.) It's definitely not worth making a whole recipe without a preview of the results.

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centralcacyclist
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
It sounds like a labor intensive mess to me! I might like a hint of sage with apple but sage is a pretty potent flavor. And candied pumpkin makes my teeth ache. There is a Mexican candy that is candied pumpkin (Dulces De Calabasas) and recall that it is very, very sweet.
gbsim1
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
The combination of the apple, sage and pumpkin does seem like too many competing flavors. I've always thought of sage both fresh and dried as one of the herbs where a little goes a long way.

But for me, the kicker would be using 3 1/2 cups of maple syrup to cook the pumpkin!!! Since maple syrup is so costly for us here in the deep south (and probably everywhere), it seems like a huge waste/expense.

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lindac
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I watched the video! LOL! Martha wasn't too keen on all that sage....and very non-commital on the cake!
colleenoz
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Lemme think...............mmmmmmmmmmm................no. Taste buds are in retreat and looking for a hiding place ;-)
Adnama
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
The only user comment on that link says "No good," and that the user might give it to a neighbor s/he doesn't like.

I would probably try an apple sage cake, but not that recipe. And definitely not with the pumpkin. I'd want it to be like the lemon rosemary cakes I've had--fruity flavor, a hint of the herb, with cream cheese frosting. Or maybe streusel, in this case.

~Amanda
compumom
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I really don't care for sweet foods with savory herbs. I'm not crazy about lavender at all and would prefer my sweets to not have rosemary added either.

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