for 12 pieces

Cake mixture

125 g	butter, soft
180 g	sugar
1 pinch	salt
3	eggs
1 ½ dl	milk
225 g	white flour
1 tsp	baking powder
1 tbsp	cocoa powder
1 tbsp	cinnamon

Topping

1	apple, deseeded, cut into pieces
1	pear, deseeded, cut into pieces
2 tbsp	hazelnuts, coarsely chopped

To decorate

icing sugar, to dust

How it's done

Cake mixture

Place the butter, sugar and salt in a bowl, mix using the whisk attachment on a mixer. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to beat until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Mix in the milk. Combine the flour and baking powder, mix in. Divide the cake mixture into two portions, mix the cocoa powder and cinnamon into one half of the mixture. Using one tablespoon each, spoon the cake mixtures alternately into the cake tin.

Topping

Arrange the apples, pears and hazelnuts on top of the mixture.

To bake

Approx. 40 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove the tin frame, slide the cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.

To decorate

Dust the cake with icing sugar.

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