Apple Coffee Cake (gluten free)
Apples are a sure sign that autumn is underway. We are blessed to have an apple tree in our backyard. The apple variety growing on our tree isn’t very good for eating fresh out of hand, but it’s great for baking. I began working on this apple cake recipe last year and after several attempts, I still felt that it just wasn’t good enough to share. I’ve made it several more times this fall, and I’m finally happy with it. Recipe development is like that. Sometimes it can take a dozen revisions, as was the case with this recipe for apple cake. I don’t have the energy I used to, either, so as happened with this recipe, it took over a year to make it enough times to get it right. It makes me miss those days of working in product development when I had a staff of technicians to which I could hand the recipe revisions (and who cleaned up afterwards). About the topping: I’ve made the cake several times with the topping added to the batter before baking and with the topping added abo...