Spiced Apple Cake
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Cake Ingredients
2 1/2 Cups (375g) Plain Flour
2 rounded Teaspoons Baking Powder
2 Teaspoons Mixed Spice
200g Butter chopped into cubes
4 large Cooking Apples (e.g. Bramley or Granny Smith) peeled, cored and chopped into small cubes about 2cm square
1 Cup (150g) Sultanas
1 Cup (175g) Light Brown Sugar
2/3 Cup (160ml) Whole (full fat) Milk
1 Egg lightly beaten
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Topping Ingredients
2 Tablespoons Honey
1 Tablespoon Granulated Sugar
- Preheat the oven to 170°C Fan or 180°C
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and mixed spice.
- Add the cubed butter and rub it into the flour with your fingertips until it looks a bit like breadcrumbs.
- Add the apple, sultanas and brown sugar and mix to combine then pour over the milk and beaten egg and mix thoroughly.
- Spoon the mixture into a lined 20cm (8 inch) round cake tin. (Ideally one with a loose bottom or a springform tin). (Click here for how to line a cake tin).
- Cook for 1 hour and then leave it to cool in the tin for 10-15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
For the topping:
- Gently heat the honey over a low heat or in the microwave. Bush the top of the cake with the warm honey and sprinkle over the sugar.
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Mmmm it so nice