Nami-Nami (Non-)Canadian apple cake

Note to self: Add Nami-Nami's blog to your fave blogs to read... I knew right away, just looking at the recipe, this would be a great cake! And it kept its promises to be just that! Great ! I could see that was canadian, well... To me anyway it sounds rather canadian... I eat cakes in the same style at my New-Found-Land neighbour's, my dear Yvonne. And she doesn't know anything about the internet except it exists and people can develop addiction to it. And she never cooks with a cookbook. In her house, there are probably less than 3 books in total, and one of them is the Canadian Tire catalog. She learned all her cooking from her mother, out there in the far away NFL. Éric, my husband, swears the cake is exactly like the one his grand-mother used on top of her big pan full of mixed fresh berries in summer (except for the apples and cinnamon). She cooked the whole thing in her wood stove and then freezed it for the coming winter months. Then in the heart of cold season, he told me with a nostalgia filled voice, she used to take out a pan off the freezer and put it in the wood stove to reaheat it at the beginning of the afternoon so it's ready to eat at snack or dessert time later, filling the house with tentalizing scents which welcomed his poor starved him when back from school. So here ! Now that I have the cake recipe, I just have to find myself an old wood stove and come up with a good mix for the mixed berries and I'll be able to send my dear husband back to the time of his childhood. Anyway, as you can see on the above picture, Éric found a sure way to canadianise his share of the cake if ever I was wrong to consider it canuck, by soaking it with maple syrup... You can find the recipe for the (non-)Canadian apple cake on Nami-Nami's blog.