Dorset Apple Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 225 g butter, softened
• 450 g baking apples (weight, peeled and cored, approx 3 large apples)
• 1 lemon (finely grated zest and juice)
• 225 g caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 225 g self-raising flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 25 g ground almonds
• 1 tablespoon demerara sugar

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat the oven to 180oc/fan 160oc, gas4.
• 2 grease a deep 24cm (9") springform cake tin and line with parchment paper.
• 3 peel and core apples and cut into 1cm pieces and toss in lemon juice.
• 4 in a bowl, beat sugar, butter and lemon zest until pale and fluffy. beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth.
• 5 sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and fold in with the ground almonds. stir in the apple pieces into the mixture.
• 6 spoon into the tin and level top, sprinkle with the demerara sugar.
• 7 bake for one hour. (skewer should come out clean).