Morven’s Apple Dappy Loaf

Name: Morven’s Apple Dappy Loaf
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Cinnamon powder, to serve; 1 lemon, zested; 90 g sugar; 90 g self-raising flour; 2 eggs; 1 medium cooking apple, peeled; 90 g butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Hebridean Baker

By Coinneach MacLeod

Published 2021

About

Peter’s mum Morven told me this was his favourite cake growing up and now it’s one of mine. Beautiful light sponge with soft apple chunks – as we say in Gaelic, blasta!

Ingredients

90 g butter
90 g sugar
90 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Scotland
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.

Into a bowl add the butter, sugar, flour and eggs and combine together with a hand mixer.

Peel and chop your apple into wee chunks. Add to the batter along with the zest of a lemon.

Place in a loaf tin and