Thursday 22 March 2012

Recipe for French Apple cake

Hello,

here it is for any who have looked in but not found the recipe.

cake
450g cooking apples, cored and sliced
115g self-raising flour
5ml/1tsp baking powder
115g caster sugar
90ml milk
50g butter, melted
2 eggs
50g/1tsp fresh nutmeg, grated

topping
75g butter, softended or sunflower margarine
115g caster sugar
5ml/1tsp vanilla essence
icing sugar, to dust
1 egg

method
Preheat the oven to 160 degrees/325F/Gas 3
Grease and line 9in round cake tin

Put all the cake ingredients into a bowl or food processor and beat to a smooth batter

Slice the apples and lay in the tin covering the bottom completely

Pour the batter over the apples in the tin, level the top then bake for 40-45 mins until lightly golden

Near to the end of cooking cream the topping ingredients together, remove the cake when time is up and pour the topping over the top and return to oven for 20-25mins until golden brown

Cool the cake in the tin, then turn it out and dust lightly with icing sugar

This is a delicious cake and really lovely with icecream or single cream poured over.

Enjoy x