Spiced apple sauce cake - recipe
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Prepare
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Serves
12 -
Cook
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Skill
Easy
Ingredients
For the cake
- 1 kg Cooking apple(s)
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice fresh
- 2 tbsp Water
- 50 ml Sunflower oil plus extra for greasing
- 100 g Plain white flour
- 100 g Plain wholemeal flour
- 1 tbsp Cornflour
- 2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Cloves
- ½ tsp Ginger
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- 225 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 100 g Raisins
- 50 g Walnuts
For the frosting
- 250 g Margarine
- 25 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- ½ tsp Cinnamon plus extra for dusting
- 12 Walnuts halved, for decorating
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1
Peel, core and slice the apples and put in a non-stick saucepan. Add the lemon juice and water. Cover and cook over a low heat until broken down into a puree. Uncover, increase the heat slightly and cook for 5 minutes or so, stirring, to cook off the excess moisture. Set aside to cool.
For this step you'll need:
- 1kg Cooking apple(s)
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice fresh
- 2 tbsp Water
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2
Preheat the oven to 160°C (fan 140°C, gas mark 3). Grease a non-stick 20cm springform tin and line the base with baking paper.
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3
Sift the flours, bicarbonate of soda, spices and sugar into a bowl.
For this step you'll need:
- 100g Plain white flour
- 100g Plain wholemeal flour
- 2tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- ½tsp Cinnamon plus extra for dusting
- ½tsp Cloves
- ½tsp Nutmeg
- ½tsp Ginger
- 225g Unrefined golden caster sugar
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4
Stir in the raisins and walnuts. Weigh out 550g apple purée and stir into the dry ingredients with the oil.
For this step you'll need:
- 100g Raisins
- 50g Walnuts halved, for decorating
- 50ml Sunflower oil plus extra for greasing
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5
Spoon the mixture into the tin, level the top and bake on the middle shelf for 55 – 60 minutes, until a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean.
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Meanwhile, put the frosting ingredients – except the walnuts – in a bowl and beat until smooth. Cover and chill.
For this step you'll need:
- 250g Margarine
- 25g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 2tsp Vanilla extract
- ½tsp Cinnamon plus extra for dusting
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7
Take out the cake and cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn our onto a wire rack to cool. Spread over the frosting, sprinkle with more cinnamon and decorate with walnuts.
For this step you'll need:
- 12 Walnuts halved, for decorating