Recently, one of Roys friends, Margaret, gave him a recipe for an Apple Cake. Roy loves cake, and particularly likes the ones with apple filling, and had been looking for an easy recipe to make one for some time. When Margaret gave him the recipe, he knew he would have to try it. A few days later, he felt like baking, so decided to give the cake a go. He was thrilled with the results and asked Margaret if she would mind him sharing the recipe with his online friends. She gave him permission, so this week, Roy Creates Margaret's Delicious Apple Cake.
You Will Need:
- 1 and a ½ cups of self raising flour
- ½ a cup of sugar
- 1 egg
- 125 grams of butter
- Vanilla essence to taste (Roy used about a teaspoon)
- A 400 gram tin of pie apples. You could also make this cake with other tinned pie fruit. Roy thinks apricots would be very tasty.
- Optional - 1 tablespoon of cinnamon sugar for sprinkling. Roy uses 1/4 a teaspoon of cinnamon per 1 tablespoon of sugar, but you can make yours to suit your own taste.
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius and line a cake tin. Roy used an 8 inch round cake tin
- Mix together all of the dry ingredients.
- Lightly beat the egg and vanilla with a fork in a small bowl then add to the dry ingredients and mix.
- Melt the butter in the microwave or on the stove top and add it to the dry ingredients and egg. Mix it in until you have a soft dough.
- Press ½ the mix into the bottom of the cake tin.
- Spread the pie apples as a layer on top of the dough.
- Cover the pie apples with the rest of the dough. Roy pressed small portions of the dough flat between his hands and lay that on top to cover the apples, but you can do it however you like.
- Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the dough if desired. You may not need all of the cinnamon sugar, you only want enough to cover lightly.
- Bake the cake for about 50 minutes to an hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool slightly in the tin and then turn out to cool.
- You can serve this cake warm as a dessert, or leave it to cool and serve it as a tea cake.
- This cake keeps well for a few days, if you don't eat it all first!
