Apples are readily available anywhere. So, we can use them in our baking easily. The apple cake is very light and is good for breakfast and teatime. And it is also very easy to make. A beautifully decorated apple cake with the apple slices make it a good gift too.
Ingredients:
- 180 g self-raising flour
- 200 g butter
- 115 g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 medium-size Granny Smith apples
Method:
- Line and grease a 7 inch x 7 inch baking pan.
- Skin, core and chop up 1 of the apples.
- Skin, core and slice thinly the other apple.
- Pre-heat oven to 170 deg C.
- Cream butter and sugar till they are light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat them well.
- Add a third of the flour alternating with the chopped apple. Mix them well at each addition. Repeat till all the flour and chopped apple have been used up.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan.
- Smoothen the batter with a spatula.
- Arrange the sliced apple on top, whichever way you like.
- Bake the batter for 35 minutes or when a skewer inserted into it comes out clean.
- Let the cake sits in the pan in the oven for 5 minutes before removing the pan from the oven.
- Remove the cake from the pan to cool down completely on a metal rack.
- Slice it and enjoy.
