Ingredients
Makes: 1 apple cake
- 4 or 5 cooking apples - peeled, cored and chopped
- 150g (5 oz) sultanas
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 225g (8 oz) demerara sugar
- 225g (8 oz) butter or margarine
- 3 eggs
- 225g (8 oz) self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon preferred spice, such as ground cinnamon or mixed spice
- demerara sugar, for sprinkling
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hr20min
- Peel and chop apples. Place in a non stick saucepan. Add sultanas and a splash of water. Simmer till apples are soft, then stir in vanilla. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and sugar till light and creamy, then beat in one egg at a time. Stir in the flour by hand, along with any spices. Finally, fold in the cooled apple mixture. Tip into a greased square cake tin, about 20cm. Sprinkle the top with demerara sugar.
- Place into a preheated 160 C / Gas 3 oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or till a knife inserted in the centre comes out clean. Let cool in tin before slicing.
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Reviews & ratings
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Reviews in English (2)
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Fun to make. I think our cooking apples were too big so the cake was very moist, but light. Yummy. - 18 Nov 2016
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lovely moist cake and kept for days well wrapped in cling film - 05 Nov 2013