Name: Apple and ginger loaf
Yield: Serves 6–8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 40 g butter; 40 g caster sugar; 4 stem ginger bulbs, finely chopped; 75 g root ginger, peeled and finely grated; 1 recipe blackberry compote; 90 g crème fraîche; 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored; 85 g dark soft brown sugar; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 170 g self-raising flour; 160 g sunflower oil; 3 medium eggs; 1 tbsp ground ginger; 85 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

This has evolved from an amazing carrot cake recipe I got from a friend and colleague when we ran a pub down in England – she made it for Shaun on his birthday and it was the best I’d ever had. This apple and ginger version is equally as good, especially with some blackberry compote and a spoonful of crème fraîche on the side. The berries for the compote need to be frozen overnight and then thawed gently at room temperature with some sugar. It’s a wonderfully simple and delicious way to mak