Apple and ginger cake
This sticky cake uses up cooking apples and is great served warm with custard or ice cream
Ingredients: (Makes about 10 slices)
• 110 grams butter (or diary free alternative)
• 225 grams dark brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 30 grams finely sliced ginger (or could substitute for stem ginger)
• 225 grams self-raising flour
• 280 grams diced cooking apple
Topping (optional)
• 2 tablespoons runny honey
• 2 tablespoons demerara sugar
Method:
- Heat oven to 170 degrees.
- In a bowl, cream the butter and dark brown sugar together until well mixed.
- Whisk up the eggs and then mix into the butter and sugar mixture. Add it little by little and mix until well combined.
- Stir in the chopped ginger.
- Sieve the flour and fold it in to the mixture.
- Mix in the apple.
- Pour into the greased tin (20cm)
- Bake for about an hour. Check it is cooked by putting a knife in and if it comes out clean, it is cooked.
- Mix honey and demerara sugar and spread over cake whilst still warm.
- Serve warm with ice-cream or wait for it to cool down and have as an afternoon treat!
Recipe created for #FoodSavvy Norfolk & Suffolk