Easy Eccles Apple Cake

 

 

 

Easy Eccles Apple Cake

 

 

Shopping List:

250 gr. butter, softened
250 gr. soft light brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 large eggs, free range please
100 gr plain flour
250 gr self-raising flour
100 ml buttermilk
2 eating apples
peeled, cored, diced. (approx 1cm)


For the filling:

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
zest of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 tablespoons soft light brown sugar
85 gr currants
85 gr raisins
50 gr mixed peel (homemade if poss)


To decorate:

85 gr icing sugar, sifted
zest and juice of 1 lemon
a few sugar cubes, roughly crushed ( i didn't use this)



Preheat your oven to 160C. Grease or spray and line your 20 cm cake tin ( i used my 22 cm one) with baking paper. Mix all the filling ingredients and put this to the side.

Put the butter, sugar and vanilla in your bowl and whisk it until it is pale. Then you can beat in the 4 eggs and fold in both the flours, buttermilk and the apples. Spoon half of this mixture into your prepared tin. Then you can scatter your prepared filling, but you have to leave about a 2.5 cm clear border around the edge of the tin. Then you spoon the remaining mixture on top, dolloping first around the edge then working your way inwards. Bake your cake for about 1 hour and 25 minutes or until your cake tester comes out clean. Let the cake cool nearly completely in the tin.

Mix your icing sugar with enough of the lemon juice. Turn out your cake when cool and drizzle drazzle the icing over the cake in any pattern you like. You could then scatter crushed sugar cubes and some lemon zest.

It all looks like a lot of work, but i promiss you it isn't really!!!

Just another nice apple cake i suppose.

                                                           "Enjoy"