Apple Cake

Name: Apple Cake
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 oz (50 g) raisins; 1 oz (25 g) flaked almonds; Juice ½ lemon; 4 oz (125 g) icing sugar; 2 oz (50 g) flaked almonds; 3 eggs; 8 oz (250 g) self-raising flour; 6 oz (175 g) butter; 6 oz (175 g) caster sugar; ½ teaspoon baking powder; 1 lb (500 g) cooking apples Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd on Britain & Ireland

By Keith Floyd

Published 1988

About

This can be served cold as a cake, but I prefer to have it warm with lots of whipped cream or home-made custard as a pud.

Ingredients

1 lb (500 g) cooking apples Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Peel, core and thinly slice the apples and sprinkle with the lemon juice.

Cream the butter with all but 1 tablespoon of the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the lemon rind and gradually incorporate the eggs. Sift the flour with the baking powder and slowly fold into the egg mixture.