Dorset Apple Cake

Dorset Apple Cake

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Dorset Apple Cake

Recipe by GeeDeeCourse: Cakes, Bakes and PastriesCuisine: BritishDifficulty: Medium
Servings

10

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

1

hour 

15

minutes
Calories

288

kcal
Total time

1

hour 

35

minutes

An apple infused spiced cake to die for. Serve warm with ice cream or even better, clotted cream to send your taste buds into Rhapsody. 

Ingredients

  • 150 g butter softened

  • 175 g dark muscovado sugar

  • 2 large eggs beaten

  • 225 g wholemeal flour

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • Pinch of salt

  • 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg

  • 1 tsp cinnamon

  • 225 g Granny Smith Apples cored and diced (peel if you want to)

  • For the Topping

  • 1 Large Granny Smith Apple cored cut lengthways and sliced thinly

  • Demerara sugar

Directions

  • Heat the oven to 160C and grease a 20cm cake tin.
  • Place the butter and muscovado sugar in a large bowl and cream together until light and creamy. Gradually add the beaten egg..
  • Sieve the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon and fold into the butter and sugar mix
  • Stir in the apples until well distributed, then tip out into the cake tin
  • Smooth the top flat and prepare the single apple by coring it and cut in half lengthways. (Again you can peel it if you want to)
  • Slice the apple thinly and arrange on top of the cake mix in a circular fashion
  • Sprinkle with the demerara sugar
  • Bake for about 1 to 1-1/4 hours, check after 1 hour and test with a skewer to make sure it is baked in the middle.
  • Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the tin then lift onto a rack to cool.
  • Serve warm with clotted cream.