Apple Crumble Cake

A colleague at work brought in a bag full of cooking apples from his tree, free to anyone who wanted some. I took 6 and decided to have a try at my first apple crumble cake.

I adapted an apple crumble cake recipe I found on Pinterest for self raising flour (I’m out of baking powder)… Here’s the result. 🙂

You will need
7″ (18cm) round cake tin
75g unsalted butter
225g self raising flour
50g caster sugar
A pinch of ground cinnamon (optional)
450g apples (cooking apples if available)
1 medium egg
1-2 tbsp milk
Confectioners sugar to dust

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6 and grease your cake tin.

Peel, core and chop the apples.

Combine flour and butter until you have fine crumbs. Add the cinnamon if you’re using it.

Mix in the sugar, then stir in the apples and beaten egg.

Add milk and mix well. It will seem like there’s too many apples in the bowl but that is how it should look!

Pile the mixture into the prepared cake tin and smooth it down a little – the tin will look quite full but that’s OK as the cake won’t rise too much.

Bake for 45 minutes or until the top is beautifully golden brown.

Use a skewer to test that the cake is cooked all the way through – it should come out clean.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool before turning out onto a wire rack.

Dust thickly with icing sugar.

Enjoy! 🙂 We ate ours with a little vanilla ice cream… Dad had his with custard.