Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake

Ingredients

• 100g butter
• 50g marg
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2/3 cup caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/3 cup milk

Topping

• 4 small green apples, peeled, halved, and cored.
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup apricot jam, warmed.

Method

• Preheat oven to 160C.
• Blend butter/marg, sugar, and cinnamon until smooth.
• Add eggs. Blend.
• Add flour and baking powder. Blend.
• Add milk. Blend.
• Line the base of a spring-form tin with baking paper and grease tin.
• Spoon in the mixture
• To make the topping, cut a row of deep slits in each apple half and arrange over the top of the cake mixture.
• Combine the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the apples.
• Bake for 50 minutes. Brush the cake with warm jam and return to oven for 10 minutes, or until cooked when tested with skewer.

Source

Donna Hay - Modern Classics Book 2