Apple Cake

This cake is a great celebration of fruit and is, once again, inspired by my beloved Antie Rebecca who used to make a fabulous apple sponge cake topped with custard for family functions. She was a brilliant baker and this cake just hit all the right notes for a boy like me; it had apples and custard and cake, three of my favourite things. Not much has changed. But in my version the apples must still be slightly firm – you need to be able to bite into the fruit; no pap (mushy) fruit, please!