Apple cake

Apple cake

Total: 1 hr 20 min. | Active: 25 min.
vegetarian

Ingredients

for 12 pieces

To soak
3 tbsp dark sultanas
3 tbsp rum
Cake mixture
150 g butter, soft
100 g sugar
1 pinch salt
eggs
50 g liquid honey
vanilla pod, cut lenghtwise, seeds scratched out
280 g white flour
2 tsp baking powder
500 g apples, coarsely grated
To bake
  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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