Apple cake

[KarenE]

Someone mentioned an apple cake recipe on my apple wine thread

I've got a lovely dorset apple cake recipe which I'm planning to make this weekend:

Dorset apple cake

Ingredients

1 large Bramley apple, about 225g
225g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp mixed spice
125g cold butter, diced
125g caster sugar, plus 1 tbsp for dredging
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
2 medium eggs, beaten
Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, gas mark 5 and lightly grease a 20cm springform cake tin. Peel the apple, cut into quarters and remove the core. Reserve one of the apple quarters and dice the rest.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and mixed spice into a large bowl. Rub in the diced butter to form fine breadcrumbs.
3. Stir in the sugar, diced apple and lemon zest, then gradually stir in the beaten eggs to form a stiff mixture. Spoon into the prepared tin and level the surface with the back of a spoon. Thinly slice the reserved apple quarter and arrange on top of the cake.
4. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until springy to the touch. Dredge with the remaining sugar, then leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes.

The lemon is usually left out, mainly because I haven;'t got one!

Any other recipes out there?

[Mo]

Thanks.

....... and lightly grease a 20cm springform cake tin.

Is that one of those round tins with a loose bottom?

[KarenE]

Is that one of those round tins with a loose bottom?

Yes it is Mo, but to be honest I usually use a small loaf tin, and scatter some diced apple on the top. It works really well as a loaf cake. It's quite a dense cake and doesn't really rise too much

[Mo]

Ah, I usually use loaf tins for my fruit cakes too.