German Apple Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 eating apples (peeled and sliced into thin wedges)
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 125g butter
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 225g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 5 tbsp milk
  • 1 ½ tbsp demerara sugar
  • ½ tsp cinnamon or ginger

Method

Preheat oven to 170C / GM3 Butter and line a 23cm round cake tin.

Toss apple wedges in the lemon juice.

Mix together butter & sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs, flour and baking powder. Add salt
and slowly add milk to create a soft batter.

Pour batter into cake tin and smooth the top. Place the apple slices in a spiral pattern over the batter.

Mix together the demerara sugar and spice of choice, then sprinkle over the top.

Bake for 45 minutes – check with a skewer, if it comes out clean, remove to cool in the tin for 15 minutes. If not, bake a little longer.

Serve warm with cream.

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