Irish Apple Cake
From homecooking 13 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 6 People
This lovely moist Apple Cake is almost as traditional as brack for Hallowe'en. It has a gorgeous crunchy top and can be served cold, as a cake or warm with cream or custard as a desert.
Ingredients
- 8oz/225g Self-raising flour shopping list
- Good pinch of salt shopping list
- 1/2 coffeespoon of ground cloves shopping list
- 4oz/100g butter, at room temperature shopping list
- 3 or 4 cooking applies shopping list
- 4-6oz 100g-150g sugar, to taste shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- A little milk to mix Granulated sugar to sprinkle over. shopping list
How to make it
- Grease and base-line a 7"-8"cake tin. Preheat a moderately hot oven, 375F, 190C, gask mark 5. Sieve the flour, salt and cloves into a bowl, cut in the butter and rub in until the mixture is like fine breadcrumbs. Peel and core the applies, slice thinly, add to the rubbed in mixture - with the sugar - the amount depends on how much sweetening the apples need. Mix in the egg and enough milk to make a fairly stiff dough, then turn the mixture into the prepared tin and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake in the preheated over for 30-40 minutes, or until crisp, golden brown and springy to the touch. Best of all served warm with chilled creme fráiche
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This is fantastic! It's so quick and easy to pull together, and simply delicious! I used just an 1/8 tsp of cloves, and 1/8 tsp of nutmeg. I wish I had crème fraiche to go along side, instead I served it with some whipped cream. The warm cake would ...more
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