Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Apple Crumble Cake
This is a recipe from Cakes & Cake Decorating by Angela Nilsen, Sarah Maxwell and Janice Murfitt. I had bought a bunch of apples from the Co-op recently to make another Spiced Apple Cake, however, I spotted another recipe in the same book that I just had to try out.
Ingredients
For the Topping
75g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
40g margarine
25g caster sugar
For the Base
50g margarine
75g caster sugar
1 egg
115 self-raising flour
2 apples; peeled, cored and sliced
50g sultanas
First things first - preheat the oven to 180 degrees and grease and line a cake tin (7"/18cm). I don't have a 7" cake tin so I used an 8" loose-bottomed one. It just meant that the cake was a little thinner and wider.
To make the topping sift the flour and cinnamon into a bowl and rub in the margarine until it resembles an ice sculpture of George Bush - or breadcrumbs if you prefer. Stir in the sugar. That's it.
Ice Sculpture of George Bush
To make the base, put the margarine, sugar, egg and flour into a machine and beat the hell outta it for a couple of minutes until it's smooth. That's it. Spoon it into the cake tin.
Get your apples and sultanas and mix them up a bit, and plonk them atop your cake base in your cake tin.
Sprinkle over the topping to cover the apples. That's it. That's really it. Just bung it in the oven for an hour.
When it comes out, leave it to cool in the tin for about 10-15 minutes before taking it out, and carefully removing the paper.
Just like mother's apple crumble, this cake is probably best served warm, and almost certainly best with oodles of hot custard!
Ingredients
For the Topping
75g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
40g margarine
25g caster sugar
For the Base
50g margarine
75g caster sugar
1 egg
115 self-raising flour
2 apples; peeled, cored and sliced
50g sultanas
First things first - preheat the oven to 180 degrees and grease and line a cake tin (7"/18cm). I don't have a 7" cake tin so I used an 8" loose-bottomed one. It just meant that the cake was a little thinner and wider.
To make the topping sift the flour and cinnamon into a bowl and rub in the margarine until it resembles an ice sculpture of George Bush - or breadcrumbs if you prefer. Stir in the sugar. That's it.
Ice Sculpture of George Bush
To make the base, put the margarine, sugar, egg and flour into a machine and beat the hell outta it for a couple of minutes until it's smooth. That's it. Spoon it into the cake tin.
Get your apples and sultanas and mix them up a bit, and plonk them atop your cake base in your cake tin.
Sprinkle over the topping to cover the apples. That's it. That's really it. Just bung it in the oven for an hour.
When it comes out, leave it to cool in the tin for about 10-15 minutes before taking it out, and carefully removing the paper.
Just like mother's apple crumble, this cake is probably best served warm, and almost certainly best with oodles of hot custard!
