Fancy a slice of cake on World Baking Day this Sunday
It's World Baking Day on Sunday so I thought I would share with you a favourite cake recipe that I have been baking and eating since childhood.
This recipe makes 2 decent sized cakes - perfect for sharing.
Ingredients
- 400g Apples- weight when peeled, cored and roughly chopped
- 350g sultanas
- 180ml milk
- 570g Self raising flour
- 255g soft brown sugar
- 255g butter melted
- 2 eggs
- 3 level teaspoons of mixed spice
plus 25g of Demerara sugar for the top
Method
- Preheat your oven to 170 deg C / 325 deg F / GM3
- Grease and line 2 x cake tins (7 inch is good- and you can use square/round tins both work well with this recipe)
- Combine the dry ingredients (reserving the Demerara sugar you'll use this later)
- Stir in the melted butter
- Finally stir in the milk and beaten eggs
- Divide the mixture between the 2 tins
- lay a loose leaf of parchment paper over the top to prevent burning
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 1 hr & 30 mins
- After 1 hr 15 mins remove the parchment paper and sprinkle the reserved Demerara sugar over the top and return to the oven for the last 15 minutes
- Leave to cool a little before removing from the tin and slicing
This cake keeps very well in a cake tin or tupperware - but beware its so deliciously moorish if it is in sight it will be being nibbled at by all takers.
