Light Apple Cake

Summary

Yield12
Prep time20 minutes
CategoryCooking
CookingCakes Desserts

Description

If you not experiensed in baking, this would be your best choice to start with.

You'll need a largish bowl and hand mixer, plus a peeling knife to prepare apples.

Ingredients

  • 125
    g
    margarine or butter
  • 125
    g
    caster sugar
  • 1
    tbsp
    vanilla sugar or vanilla extract
  • 1
    ds
    of salt (not if you use salted butter or margarine)
  • 1
    tbsp
    lemon extract
  • 3
     
    eggs
  • 200
    g
    plain flour
  • 2
    tsp
    baking powder
  • 2
    tbsp
    milk
  • 750
    g
    cooking or english cox apples
  • 25
    g
    melted butter
  • 40
    g
    cleaned raisins
  • 2
    tbsp
    appricot glaze

Instructions



Set your hand mixer on high and work butter into a light creamy consistency in a bowl.  Mixing continuously, add gradually sugar, vanilla, salt, lemon extract and then eggs one by one (mixing approx. 1/2 min. each).

Sift the flour and baking powder and add in small quantities, alternating with milk - for that set your hand mixer on medium.

Grease well your round tin approx. 25 cm in diameter and pour all the mixture, levelling it up with a spatula.

Now prepare the apples:

Peel them, quarter and core.   Cut in half.   Make few incisions to the half depth of each piece of fruit.

Arrange apples on top of your dough mixture and press it slightly.

With 25 g of melted butter brush each piece of fruit and scatter raisins on top (optionally - I don't use raisins at all and love it that way).

You can also brush the fruit with milk to save on calorific value.

Baking:

Electric oven: 170-200 C preheat

Fan assisted oven: 160 - 170 C do not preheat

Gas oven: positions 3-4 do not preheat

While still hot brush the whole surface with an apricot glaze and set to cool.

Serve with tea or glass of milk.

Enjoy!!!

Notes