Quick and Easy Apple Cake
When Ava was small and I had just started going to mother’s group one of the other mothers brought along a delicious apple cake. I devoured my piece and politely accepted when another was offered, conveniently blaming breastfeeding and the need for calories on my extensive appetite.
Thankfully The Mummy shared the recipe with me and since then it has been my ‘go to’ recipe when heading to someones house for morning tea. It takes no time to mix up and only 45min to bake, making it perfect for last-minute emergencies, impressing people just that little more when you serve it warm. Aside from apple you can substitute different fruits – it is a very versatile little recipe. I have made it with apricots before but I recently made it with pears for the Mums at playgroup and I think this would be my favourite so far.
Easy Apple Cake
The shopping list
3/4 cup wholemeal self raising flour
3/4 cup self raising flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
125g melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 Granny smith apples, sliced and lightly stewed or 400g tin of pie apples
Some extra sugar and cinnamon for sprinkling
A greased 20cm springform tin (It also handy to put a circle of baking paper in the bottom)
A large mixing bowl
What to do with it…
Preheat oven to 180°C
Mix sifted flours, sugar, egg, melted butter and vanilla
Press 3/4 of mixture into the tin
Spread fruit on top
Press small pieces of the remaining mixture over the top of the fruit
Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar
Bake for 45-55 minutes or until nicely browned on top
Note: If you don’t have a 20cm springform, an 18cm is better than larger
You can sprinkle toasted almond flakes at the end
Also nice with pears, peaches or apricots
Yum! I’ve been making a similar recipe recently but t has a couple of tablespoons on rum in it. You can’t really taste rum, just a lovely extra flavour. Might try pear next time.
Rum sounds interesting, is it a dark rum?