Sliced Apple Cake
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1 hour
This cake is baked with large slices of apple stirred through it then glazed with jam before finely being finished with a light lemon icing.
elisabeth
5 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- Cake
- 125g unsalted butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup (125g) caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- salt, to taste
- 4 drops lemon essence
- 1 1/2 cups (185g) plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 3 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- Glaze
- 2-3 tablespoons apricot jam
- icing sugar
- lemon juice
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:40min ›
Ready in:1hour
- Cake: Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease a round springform cake tin.
- Beat butter until fluffy then gradually beat in the sugar, eggs, salt and lemon essence.
- Mix together flour and baking powder, sift into the batter then fold in. Stir in just enough milk to make a cake like batter.
- Fold in apples and pour into prepared cake tin. Bake in preheated oven for 40-50 minutes.
- Glaze: Brush with apricot jam whilst warm.
- Mix just enough icing sugar and lemon juice to make a drizzly icing then brush onto the cake.
