Apple cake
Ingredients
for 12 pieces
3 tbsp | dark sultanas |
3 tbsp | rum |
150 g | butter, soft |
100 g | sugar |
1 pinch | salt |
3 | eggs |
50 g | liquid honey |
1 | vanilla pod, cut lenghtwise, seeds scratched out |
280 g | white flour |
2 tsp | baking powder |
500 g | apples, coarsely grated |
icing sugar, to dust |
How it's done
To soak
Combine the sultanas and rum, set aside.
Cake mixture
Whisk the butter, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to whisk until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Stir in the honey and vanilla seeds. Combine the flour and baking powder, stir in the apples, add to the cake mixture along with the sultanas and rum. Transfer the cake mixture to the prepared tin.
To bake
Bake for approx. 55 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove the cake from the oven, allow to cool a little, remove from the tin and leave to cool on a rack, dust with icing sugar.
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