Annie's Apple Cake
Ingredients - Serves up to 8
125g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
50g castor sugar
50g butter or margarine
1 egg
150ml milk
1 large Bramley apple (approx 225g)
For the topping:
50g demerara sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
Pre-heat oven to 175 °C Cream to serve.
Cooking Instructions
SPONGE BASE
1. Sift the flour and baking powder, stir in the castor sugar.
2. Whisk the egg and milk by hand.
3. Melt the butter and whisk into egg and milk.
4. Make a well in the flour and pour the egg, milk and butter mixture
into the centre; fold until smooth.
5. Pour mixture into a 23cm (9 inch) round flan dish.
TOPPING
1. Wash and slice the apple, arrange the slices onto the sponge mixture base,
working from the centre out in rounds.
2. Melt a little butter and brush over apple slices.
3. Stir the cinnamon into demerara sugar and sprinkle over the apples.
4. Bake for 25 minutes at 175 °C.
5. Serve warm or cold with a spoonful of creme freche or a drizzle of cream.
QUICK RECIPE - APPLE CRUMBLE
Mix 170g flour with 85g margarine until it resembles breadcrumbs; stir in 85g sugar.
Slice and layer 600g Bramley apples in a dish and sprinkle with 85g castor sugar.
Add the crumble topping and cook for 40 minutes at 180°C.
APPLE SEASON
Garsons Pick Your Own Farm grows the following apple varieties: Baking apples: Bramley.
Eating apples: Discovery, Katy and Cox. The picking season lasts throughout August and September.
All items are subject to availability © Garsons 2007,
Winterdown Road, West End, Esher, Surrey, KT10 8LS