I joined a virtual cooking club for Dorrie Greenspan’s Around my French Table – French Fridays with Dorrie. The recipe for this week – October 29 – was Marie-Helene’s apple cake. I made two of them for a Saturday morning brunch, for a 30th wedding anniversary. My cakes were a little too thin, because I used a 9-inch springform – and a 9-inch cake pan with a loose bottom from a tart pan stuck inside for cake #2 – how dumb of me not to use an 8-inch for that one … I cut the two cakes into 16 slices, and both were devoured, with only 4 slices leftover, by 14 people, along with 3/4 of a large handsome carrot cake.
