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Apple and Almond Cake

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes using almond, recipes using apple, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes using wheat flour, recipes with metric units, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AApple_and_Almond_Cake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AApple%20and%20Almond%20Cake&oldid=4523677

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 5 ounces (145 g) butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 8 ounces (230 g) caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon almond essence
  • 8 ounces (230 g) self-raising flour
  • 1½ level teaspoons baking powder
  • approx. ¾ pounds (330 g) peeled cooking apples (e.g. Bramleys)
  • icing sugar to dredge

Directions

  1. Grease a 9-inch (23 cm) loose-bottomed spring-form cake tin.
  2. Gently melt the butter in a pan, then pour into a large bowl.
  3. Add the eggs, sugar, and almond essence and stir well until mixed. Then add the flour and baking powder. Stir well—at this point, it should be a stiff mixture.
  4. Spread just under two-thirds of the mixture into the cake tin.
  5. Immediately afterwards, peel, core and slice the apples and arrange on top of the mixture in the tin. Cover these with the remainder of the cake mixture. At this stage, the cake may appear "untidy", but the cooking process eliminates most unevenness or gaps in the surface.
  6. Bake for 1¼ to 1½ hours in a preheated oven at 325 °F (160 °C / Gas Mark 3)
  7. Once cooked, allow to cool slightly in the tin. Loosen the sides of the cake with a knife and gently push the cake out onto a plate. Cool completely.
  8. Lightly dust the top of the cake with sieved icing sugar once cool. Serve warm or cold, with cream for best results.

Notes

This cake will last for at least 3–4 days, and can be re-heated as necessary. Keep covered or alternatively refrigerate.