Step #1 TO DECORATE--- 1 lg Braeburn Apple; thinly -sliced 50 g Apricot jam; (1 1/2 oz) Grease & line an 18cm (7") round cake tin with baking parchment.
Step #2 Peel, core & dice the apples into 5mm ( 1/4") cubes.
Step #3 Cook over a low heat with the cider until slightly soft & the cider has been absorbed.
Step #4 Cream the butter & sugar until pale & fluffy, then slowly add the eggs.
Step #5 Fold in the flour, mixed spice & cinnamon followed by the softened apples.
Step #6 Put the mixture into the prepared tin & arrange the thinly sliced apples in a spiral over the top of the cake.
Step #7 Bake in a preheated oven at 170?C, gas mark 3, 325?F, for approximately 1 hr.
Step #8 If the apples brown too quickly, cover the tin loosely with foil and continue to cook this until a skewer, inserted into the centre of the cake, comes out clean.
Step #9 Leave the cake to cool in the tin for fifteen mins, then turn out onto a wire rack.
Step #10 When the cake has cooled brush the whole cake with hot apricot jam.
Step #11 Variation: Make a thin icing by mixing some of the remaining cider with 25g (1oz) of icing sugar & brush over the cake, on top of the cooled apricot jam.