Dorset Apple Cake

The best apple cake recipe I have come across, this was from delicious Food Magazine. All the family love it. It is a beautiful moist cake and is great on its own or as a pudding with a little cream, custard or ice-cream.

• Ready In: 1 hr 30 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 225  g butter, softened
• 450  g baking apples (weight, peeled and cored, approx 3 large apples)
• 1  lemon (finely grated zest and juice)
• 225  g caster sugar
• 3  large eggs
• 225  g self-raising flour
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 25  g  ground almonds
• 1  tablespoon demerara sugar

Directions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180oc/fan 160oc, gas4.
2. Grease a deep 24cm (9") springform cake tin and line with parchment paper.
3. Peel and core apples and cut into 1cm pieces and toss in lemon juice.
4. In a bowl, beat sugar, butter and lemon zest until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth.
5. Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and fold in with the ground almonds. stir in the apple pieces into the mixture.
6. Spoon into the tin and level top, sprinkle with the demerara sugar.
7. Bake for one hour. (skewer should come out clean).