From the Kitchen: Irish Apple Cake

A Recipe for Slow Afternoons & Remembering

There are days when the kitchen feels like a place to get things done

and then there are days when it becomes something softer.

A place to return to yourself.

Today felt like that.

The light came in gently, not rushed.

The kind of light that doesn’t ask anything of you.

And without really planning to, I found myself reaching for apples.

Not for anything fancy.

Not for a new release or a photo or a launch.

Just…for something warm.

There is something about apples and cinnamon that lives deep in memory.

It feels like wood floors and quiet conversations.

Like something baking while life happens around it.

This Irish Apple Cake is like that.

Simple.

Humble.

The kind of recipe that doesn’t try too hard—

but somehow becomes the one you come back to again and again.

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🍰 Irish Apple Cake with Cinnamon Streusel

A soft, tender cake layered with apples and topped with a buttery cinnamon crumble.

Ingredients

For the Cake

• ½ cup butter, softened

• ¾ cup brown sugar

• 2 eggs

• 1 tbsp vanilla

• 1¾ cups flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp cinnamon

• Pinch of salt

• ⅓ cup heavy cream

• ⅓ cup milk

• 2–2½ cups apples, peeled, cored, and sliced

For the Streusel

• 3 tbsp cold butter

• 3 tbsp flour

• ¼ cup raw sugar

• ½ tsp cinnamon

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🍂 Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°.

Cream together the butter and brown sugar until soft and light.

Add the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.

Slowly add this to the batter, alternating with the milk and heavy cream.

Fold in the apples gently—the batter will be thick.

In a small bowl, work together the cold butter, flour, sugar, and cinnamon until crumbly.

Spread the batter into a prepared pan and scatter the streusel over the top.

Bake for about 45 minutes, until golden and set.

✨ Closing Blessing

May your kitchen be a place of return.
May what you make with your hands soften what you carry in your heart.
May there always be something warm waiting for you—
and someone to share it with when the time is right.

With Love from the Studio,

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From the Kitchen: Irish Apple Cake