Devon Apple Cake

One of our oldest "family" recipes that we were given by Sandra Davison, many years ago in Plymouth.

Ingredients

110 g butter
110 g sugar · for the dough
225 g self raising flour
1 egg · beaten
450 g baking apple · peeled, cored and thinly sliced
50 g raisins or sultanas
2 tbsp sugar · for the fruit
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger

Method

  1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
  2. Melt the butter and allow to cool a little. Add the sugar for the dough and the beaten egg and mix well. Stir in the flour to make a soft dough.
  3. Put half the dough in the bottom of a lined deep cake tin.
  4. Mix the sugar for the fruit, cinnamon, ginger & apples together and spread over the dough.
  5. Top with the remaining mixture
  6. Bake for 40-45 mins at 180°C
  • Serve hot with clotted cream, or cold and sliced.
  • Goes nice and crispy on the outside.
  • Don’t slice the apple too thickly as it needs to cook inside the cake.