Libby’s Dutch apple skillet cake with cinnamon ice cream is rich in flavor, gooey in the center and soft in texture. Warm and crunchy on the outside, the pie’s innards get sprinkled with spiced apple dust transporting you back to your childhood kitchen baking with Grandma. Chef Michael Yoder from Libby’s Café and Bar prepares his infamous dessert with cake batter—and even better, serves it on a skillet, maintaining an irresistible fresh-from-the-oven taste.

Cake Batter: 16 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 4 cups flour; 1.5 tsp. vanilla extract; 2 cup heavy cream, 3 cup milk; 1 pinch of salt.

Place all dry ingredients in a medium to small mixer and turn on low. Allow ingredients to evenly distribute. In a mixing bowl add together all of your wet ingredients and whisk together till combined. With mixer on low, add your wet components to your dry ingredients and continue to mix till well incorporated. When mixture is completely combined and smooth remove from the mixer and place into a plastic container for later use.

Spiced Apple Dust: 1 zest of lemon; ⅓ cup ground cinnamon; ⅛ cup ground clove; ⅛ ground allspice; ⅛ ground nutmeg; 5 cup brown sugar; 2 frozen green apple slice cut into thirds.

Place all the ingredients into a mixing bowl and toss together. Allow it to sit for about 30 minutes to let the flavor seep in.

Place a small cast iron skillet into oven set at 350 degrees. Wait about 15 minutes to allow the skillet to heat up and become hot enough to start cooking the batter immediately after pouring in (skillet must be hot). Take the hot skillet out of the oven and add in enough spiced apples to fill the skillet about ⅓ full. Pour in the batter over the top of the apples and place enough to fill the skillet about ¾ full. Do not fill up to the top so you can allow space for the cake to rise a little. Place back into the oven and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes. You can test the batter by poking it with a wooden toothpick. If it comes out clean and not wet batter on it the cake is done. Place the hot skillet on a charger plate and add one scoop of cinnamon ice cream on top. You may even drizzle caramel sauce over the ice cream and cake to finish the dish. Serve immediately.

Libby's Cafe and Bar, 1917 S Osprey Ave, Sarasota, 941-487-7300