Granny's Apple cake from coveredinfelttip

kids can help can make in advance ok to freeze vegetarian
Category
Cake and dessert recipes
Serveslots - it makes a big cake!
Prep time 30 mins
Cook time1 1/2 hours hours

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Ingredients

4 Granny Smith apples (or any apples really)
2 cups sugar (I use raw cane sugar or golden caster sugar but you can use any type)
8oz butter
2 eggs
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp nutmeg
1 1/2 cups sultanas or raisins
optional - 1 cups chopped walnuts

Method

Peel and roughly chop the apples.
Add the sugar and leave while doing the rest of the cake.
Melt the butter.
Add the eggs and mix well
Add this mixture to the apples.
Sift the dry ingredients and mix into the wet mixture.
Add the sultanas (or raisins and walnuts)
Bake at 180C for 1 1/2 hours in a 23 cm tin. Check that the middle is cooked with a skewer. If it's a little bit sticky on the skewer, that's fine - it's a moist cake - but you don't want raw mixture there.
Dust the top with icing sugar.

Mumsnetter Reviews

From: coveredinfelttip on Fri 25-Jan-08 09:11:24 Overall rating: 0.0
This makes a big solid moist cake and it is even better the second day! It's a winner with everyone who trys it. Delicious.



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