Anya's apple chocolate cinnamon cake
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1 hour 15 min
My daughter and I thought this up when we wanted to make a chocolate cake but had apples to use up. It turned out to be a very yummy chocolate cake which is moist because of the grated apple and gooey because of the chocolate chips!
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Ingredients
Makes: 1 loaf cake
- 150g (5 oz) softened butter or cooking margarine
- 150g (5 oz) light brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 125g (4 1/2 oz) plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 25g cocoa powder
- 100g milk chocolate chips
- 2 medium sized dessert apples
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:55min ›
Ready in:1hr15min
- Pre heat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease a 900g (2 lb) loaf tin.
- Cream together the sugar and butter till light and fluffy. Whisk together the eggs in a bowl and in another sift the flour with the baking powder, cinnamon and cocoa. Alternate adding egg and flour mixture to the butter mixture until all ingredients are combined.
- Peel and grate one dessert apple and combine into the mixture. Add almost all of the chocolate chips (keep a handful back for sprinkling on the top) to the mixture and combine. Pour the mixture into a 2lb loaf tin.
- Peel and chop the other apple into small cubes around 1cm then sprinkle this and the remaining chocolate chips over the cake.
- Bake in the oven for 55 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
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superb cake,,really moist and chocolatey. plenty of flavour and also keeps well - 28 Feb 2014
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Baked it for 45 minutes instead, looks amazing! 😊 - 24 Oct 2014
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