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Apple Cake (Ābolkūka)
Also known as: Ābolkūka
Latvian lattice apple cake with butter pastry and a tart apple filling.
About Apple Cake (Ābolkūka)
This ābolkūka is Lolita Šelvaha’s Latvian apple cake with a pastry lattice. A butter-and-egg dough encloses a cooked apple filling beneath strips of the same pastry.
Sour apples and sugar provide a sweet-tart balance. The published filling is simple, without a separately named cinnamon or vanilla seasoning.
The apples form a soft filling inside a shaped pastry rim. The lattice is glazed with egg yolk and milk, giving the top a finished, browned appearance.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Apple Cake (Ābolkūka)
Lolita Šelvaha’s Latvian lattice apple cake.
- FlourBase
- EggsBinder
- ButterCooking medium
- SugarSweetener
- SaltSeasoning
- Sour applesFilling
- Egg yolkFinish
- MilkFinish
- WaterLiquid
- Greasing fatCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour: Wheat (gluten). Standard wheat flour supported by the documented conventional shortcrust butter-and-egg pastry context; exact grade/product and catalogue approval remain separate.
- Eggs: Egg
- Butter: Milk
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sour apples: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader apple record; sour variety retained
- Egg yolk: Egg
- Milk: Milk
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Greasing fat: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method specifies a greased tin without identifying the fat
Recipe-specific unresolved details
- Blind-baking peas are a removable baking aid, not an edible ingredient.
- Source pastry list says two eggs while method says one; egg presence is clear, quantities not reproduced.
- Serving temperature is not stated.
- Greasing-fat identity is unspecified; exact wheat flour grade is not stated.
Origins & food traditions
Published by a Latvian recipe author as ābolkūka with a lattice top; no exclusive origin claim.
Countries
- Latvia
- LatviaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Latvian Cuisine
- Latvian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.