Recipe: Yummy Old fashioned apple cake

Old fashioned apple cake.

You can cook Old fashioned apple cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Old fashioned apple cake

1. It's of For the cake:.
2. It's 280 g (2 1/3 cup) of plain flour.
3. Prepare 200 g (1 cup) of caster sugar.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
5. Prepare 3/4 tsp of fine salt.
6. You need 1 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
7. It's 1/2 tsp of ground ginger.
8. It's 1/4 tsp of ground or grated nutmeg.
9. You need 2 of large eggs.
10. It's 115 g (1 stick) of butter, softened.
11. It's 400 g (1 pound) of cooking Bramley apples, peeled, cored and diced.
12. Prepare 100 g (1/2 cup) of sultanas or raisins.
13. Prepare of For the frosting:.
14. You need 50 g (3 1/2 tbsp.) of butter.
15. You need 70 g (5 tbsp.) of brown sugar.
16. Prepare 1/4 tsp of fine salt.
17. You need 30 ml (3 tbsp.) of milk.
18. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

Old fashioned apple cake step by step

1. Butter and flour or line with parchment a round 23cm (10in) springform cake tin..
2. Place the diced apples and raisins in a large bowl and pour over the brown sugar. Let them sit for 30 minutes until they release some juice..
3. Beat the other ingredients thoroughly together until smooth in another bowl..
4. When the half an hour’s passed, add the cake mix to the apples and mix until combined..
5. Transfer the batter to the tin and smooth the surface with a spatula..
6. Bake for 50-55 minutes until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean..
7. Remove from the oven and cool in the tin..
8. To make the frosting, melt the sugar and butter in a small pan until dissolved. Add the salt, pour in the milk and the vanilla extract and bring to the boil. Take it off the heat and beat the icing sugar into the mix until smooth..
9. Spread on the cooled cake and let it set before removing the cake from the tin..