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.

Moon Rocks

Ingredients

90 g butter
90 g brown sugar
½ tsp mixed spice
125 g raisins
250 g self raising flour
1 egg, beaten

Method

  1. Set the oven to 200°C.
  2. Rub the butter into the flour until it looks like breadcrumbs.
  3. Add in the sugar and raisins.
  4. Mix well, then add the beaten egg.  Stir together until it is mixed enough to squeeze into a ball.
  5. Grease a baking tray and make the mix into 8-12 small heaps.
  6. Cook in the oven for about 15 mins.

Eat when cool enough (but ideally still warm).