Shoe Maker'S Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 cooking apples, peeled, cored and cut into small chunks
1/2 c. sugar or to taste
1 c. raisins
5 Tbsp. butter, melted
4 egg yolks, lightly beaten
4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
butter for greasing the pan
1 1/2 c. toasted bread crumbs

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
In a saucepan over a medium flame, heat the apples without water until very tender, stir occasionally. Watch closely or will burn.
Mash the apples and sugar to taste. Add raisins, melted butter and then the yolks.
Gently fold in egg whites and mix well.
Butter a 9-inch spring-form pan and sprinkle with 1/2 cup of the bread crumbs to make an even coating.
Pour half the apple mixture in the pan and sprinkle the top with the other 1/2 cup of bread crumbs.
Then add remainder of apple mixture and top with the other 1/2 cup crumbs.
Bake for about 50 minutes until the cake is firm and light brown.
Remove, cool and remove ring.
Serve cut into wedges with ice cream or whipped cream.