Easy Dutch apple cake
Easy Dutch apple cake
About this recipe: Make this apple cake in autumn when local apples are at their best. A light sponge cake is topped with apples, sugar and cinnamon before being baked to perfection.
Ingredients
Serves: 15
- 100g butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 190g plain flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 175ml milk
- 2 apples - peeled, cored and each cut into eight wedges
- 4 tablespoons caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hr5min
- Sieve flour with baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- Cream together butter and 200g sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla until fluffy. Add flour mix alternately with milk, beginning and ending with the flour mix.
- Spread the cake mixture into a greased 18x28cm or similar sized baking tin. Gently press apple wedges into cake in rows. Sprinkle with 4 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon.
- Bake at 180 C / Gas 4 for 50 to 60 minutes or until apples are tender and cake tests done.
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Reviews (12)
Excellent cake, made it for colleagues and they loved it, really easy - 07 Nov 2012
Gorgeous, moist with a slight crunch on top. Love it! - 31 Aug 2014
Looked simple and it is, but with great results worried about the tablespoon of baking powder but it is needed. I also popped in a bit of cinnamon to the cake mixture. This is a simple very delicious cake!! Will be baking this again!! - 03 Apr 2015
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