Jenny's Apple Tree Cake

April 28, 2019

We missed Simon in addition to Noni's housewarming, but nosotros invited ourselves over for tea before long later on when they adopted puppy Arnold. There was plenty of fourth dimension inwards the morn to bake a welcome-to-your-own-neighbourhood cake. For the chore I picked out Jenny's apple tree cake, genuinely shared past times Jane inwards the lab cheerio cookbook.

This cake has just the element listing you'd hold off of a traditional apple tree cake, although the technique in addition to proportions are a lilliputian skewed! There's no electrical beater here, merely a thick dough brought together inwards a saucepan, in addition to barely plenty of it to bind together the large quantity of apples. In her notes Jane assured me "the mixture is soft in addition to breaks but it notwithstanding works", in addition to she was right. It's just the homely afternoon process you'd imagine, sturdy plenty to strap onto the dorsum of a bike, in addition to perfect amongst a loving cup of tea in 1 lawsuit it arrives at its destination.

Jenny's apple tree cake
(a recipe shared past times Jane)

half-dozen apples
ii whole cloves
120g butter
120g sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon mixed spice (I used ginger, cloves, cardamom)
1 egg
1 1/2 cups apparently flour
iii teaspoons baking powder

Preheat an oven to 180°C. Line a circular springform cake tin dismiss amongst baking newspaper in addition to spray it amongst oil.

Peel, nub in addition to coarsely die the apples. Place them inwards a medium saucepan amongst a splash of H2O in addition to the cloves in addition to educate them over low-medium heat, stirring often, until the apples a merely cooked through: they should convey softened a lilliputian but notwithstanding survive belongings their shape. Set aside to cool, in addition to take away the cloves.

In closed to other saucepan, melt the butter in addition to and then plough off the heat. Stir inwards the sugar, in addition to then the spices, in addition to then the egg. Finally, stir inwards the flour to form a dough. Scoop merely over one-half of the dough into the cake tin dismiss in addition to spread it evenly over the base. Turn all of the cooked apples into the cake tin dismiss in addition to spread them out evenly. Dot the acme of the cake amongst tablespoons of the remaining dough, filling inwards the gaps without existence also fussy well-nigh it (see moving painting above).

Bake the cake for xl minutes, in addition to exit it inwards the tin dismiss for a farther thirty minutes earlier serving.