• Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees

Prepare you cake pan

• Grab a 9 inch round cake pan
• Rub a tablespoon of butter all around the inside of your cake pan making sure to get the sides too.
• Now add about a tablespoon of flour to your cake pan and shake the flour all around the pan so the flour sticks to the butter. Once the flour has coated all the butter in your cake pan, turn it upside down over the sink and shake out any excess flour then set your pan aside. This will help your cake release from the pan after baking.

Preparing the cake

• Grab your apples and peel the skins off with a peeler. If you do not have a peeler you can go ahead and leave the skins on.
  2 golden delicious apples peeled, cored and diced
• Starting about ½ inch from the center of your apple, begin slicing all the apple around the apple core until you have four large wedges of apple. Discard the core. You can also use an apple corer if you have one to do this part.
• Dice the apple pieces that you cut off from the core.
• Add your diced apples to a small bowl along with your lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of sugar.
  1 tablespoon lemon juice
• Mix and set aside.
• In another large bowl, add your eggs and sugar and beat on medium speed until it becomes a pale yellow color and the texture is smooth.
  3 large eggs, 1 cup sugar
• Now add your room temperature butter and whip that into the egg mixture until smooth.
  8 tablespoon room temperature unsalted butter
• In a new large bowl, sift your flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
  2 ¾ cup All purpose flour, 2.5 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Add your sifted flour mixture into your egg and butter bowl and stir it in making sure it is mixed well. The batter will be very thick.
• Now grab your bowl of diced apples and pour that into your cake batter.
• Fold the apples into the batter making sure it is evenly distributed throughout the batter.
• Now add your apple cake batter to your prepared cake pan.
• You will need to push the batter to the sides of the pan since it is very thick.
• Try to smooth out any bumps on top.
• Place your cake into the pre-heated oven and bake for 25-35 minutes or until the top is nice and golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. All ovens vary so start checking your cake at 25 minutes.
• When it is ready, remove it from the oven and place on a cooling rack for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes, flip your cake upside down on to your cooling rack. It should release from the pan. If it does not, while it is upside down, give it a nice bang on the bottom of the pan to help release it.
• Once flipped out, flip your cake right side up carefully and let cool for another 20 minutes.
• Serve immediately or store in an air tight container for up to 2 days.