Fresh apple & almond pound cake

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

1 c Unsalted butter -or margarine at -room temperature
1 1/2 c Granulated sugar
1/2 ts Ground mace -or nutmeg
1/2 ts Salt
5 lg Eggs at room temperature
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
1/2 ts Freshly grated -lemon peel
2 c Cake flour (not self-rising) -or 1 3/4 cups all-purpose -flour
1 md About 5 ounces) tart cooking

Instructions:

-apple (Granny Smith -Northern Spy or Greening) -peeled quartered cored and -cut crosswise in very thin -slices 1/3 c Sliced almonds Confectioner's sugar -For decoration Prep: 22 minutes Bake: 1 hour 25 minutes This cake has a crisp sugary top that will crack on cooling. Heat oven to 325 F. Lightly grease and flour a 9*5*3-inch loaf pan. Beat butter in a large bowl with electric mixer about 30 seconds until smooth. With mixer on low speed gradually add sugar mace and salt. Increase speed to high and beat until pale and fluffy. With mixer still on high add eggs 1 at a time beating well after each. Continue beating scraping down sides of bowl once or twice until mixture is smooth and very pale and has increased in volume. Beat in vanilla then stir in lemon peel. With a rubber spatula gently stir (fold) in flour about 1/3 at a time until batter is smooth and no lumps remain. Spread 1/3 batter in prepared pan. Sprinkle evenly with 1/2 the apple slices and 1/2 the almonds to within 1/4 inch of the pan on all sides. (Cake will separate into layers if apples and almonds completely cover batter.) Spread with half of remaining batter to cover. Sprinkle as above with remaining apples and almonds. Spread remaining batter over top. Bake 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes until a pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Carefully run a thin-bladed knife around edges to loosen. Invert on rack remove pan turn cake right-side up and cool completely. Just before slicing and serving dust with confectioners' sugar stirred through a strainer. * Serves 18. Per serving with cake flour: 236 cal 3 g pro 28 g car 13g fat 87 mg chol with butter 60 mg chol with margarine 80 mg sod. Exchanges:1/2 starch/bread 1 1/3 fruit 1/4 medium fat meat 2 1/4 fat