A super easy and utterly delicious apple cake that everyone needs to have in their repertoire of home baked goods.
Apple Cake from My Childhood
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BY YASMINE IDRISS
A super easy and utterly delicious apple cake that everyone needs to have in their repertoire of home baked goods.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
- 1/2 cup oil (coconut oil would be great if available)
- 2 cups SELF RAISING flour (NOT PLAIN FLOUR)
- 3/4 cup natural apple juice or milk
- zest of 1 unwaxed orange and 1 unwaxed lemon
- 1 tsp vanilla essence or you can use the seeds of 1 pod
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Method
- 1)
Preheat oven to 180C.
- 2)
Grease and flour pan.
To top
- 1)
Rolled oats, brown sugar and cinnamon.
- 2)
3 apples, peeled, deseeded. Cut each into 4 and score them thinly lengthwise.
- 1)
Start off by whisking by hand the eggs and the sugar until well combined.
- 2)
Next, add the sifted flour and alternate with the orange juice (or milk) mixed with the oil. Fold gently with a spatula.
- 3)
Add the zest at the end- don’t over mix.
- 4)
Pour in the cake pan and top with the apples in a circular way. Sprinkle some rolled oats, Demerara sugar and cinnamon before baking.
- 5)
Bake at 180C for 35 min. Check with a skewer at 30 min. Inserted skewer should come out clean.