Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake

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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 (next time try 1 tsp)
  • 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 160°C.
  • 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 (see picture).
  • 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

Modern Classics (Book 2) [1]