MrsDangermouse
Guru
We're not keen on traditional Christmas cake in our house, but rather than just having a chocolate cake (or something else you can have year-round) I bake this rich apple cake instead. Its dense and moist and I think it has a really Christmassy flavour.
Ingredients
200g butter, softened plus extra for greasing
200g dark muscovado sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 tbsp black treacle
200g self-raising flour
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder
2 eating apples, grated (approx 100g each)
3 apples (approx 100g each), grated with most of the juice squeezed out
Method
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4
- Grease and line two 20cm cake tins, or one deep 20cm tin
- Beat the first seven ingredients together in a large bowl until pale and thick
- Using a large metal spoon, gently fold in the fruit until evenly combined
- Spoon the batter into the tins and bake for 20-30 mins (or 50-60 mins if you're making one deep cake) or until the cake is dark golden, springy to the touch and has shrunk away from the tin slightly
- Cool, sandwich them together with a filling of your choice (if you made two cakes, toffee flavour works well) and decorate
Original recipe from here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2564/easy-apple-fruit-cake
You'll see that the original recipe calls for 200g of apple and 300g of mixed sultanas and raisins but as we don't like dried fruit I substitute them for extra apple. Though because apple contains a lot more liquid than dried fruit you do need to squeeze most of the juice out of the extra apple otherwise the cake mixture is too soggy.
Ingredients
200g butter, softened plus extra for greasing
200g dark muscovado sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 tbsp black treacle
200g self-raising flour
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder
2 eating apples, grated (approx 100g each)
3 apples (approx 100g each), grated with most of the juice squeezed out
Method
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4
- Grease and line two 20cm cake tins, or one deep 20cm tin
- Beat the first seven ingredients together in a large bowl until pale and thick
- Using a large metal spoon, gently fold in the fruit until evenly combined
- Spoon the batter into the tins and bake for 20-30 mins (or 50-60 mins if you're making one deep cake) or until the cake is dark golden, springy to the touch and has shrunk away from the tin slightly
- Cool, sandwich them together with a filling of your choice (if you made two cakes, toffee flavour works well) and decorate
Original recipe from here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2564/easy-apple-fruit-cake
You'll see that the original recipe calls for 200g of apple and 300g of mixed sultanas and raisins but as we don't like dried fruit I substitute them for extra apple. Though because apple contains a lot more liquid than dried fruit you do need to squeeze most of the juice out of the extra apple otherwise the cake mixture is too soggy.
