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
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
- 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.
- Put half the dough in the bottom of a lined deep cake tin.
- Mix the sugar for the fruit, cinnamon, ginger & apples together and spread over the dough.
- Top with the remaining mixture
- 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.