Country apple cake
Good Food reader, Magdalena Duggan, shares her grandmother's spiced chocolate sponge packed with fruit from the garden
- Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 50 mins
- Serves 8
- Easy
Ingredients
- 5 medium eggs
- 200g granulated sugar
- 100ml vegetable oil
- 175g plain flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 5 eating apples, peeled, cored and diced, about 600g
- 1 tsp each icing sugar and ground cinnamon, for dusting
Method
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Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
Line a 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin
with baking parchment. In a large bowl,
beat together the eggs and sugar until
thick and pale, about 5 mins. Pour in the
oil and stir well to combine.
-
Sieve in the dry ingredients and fold
through until the mixture is smooth and
well combined before adding the apples.
-
Carefully pour the mixture into the tin
and bake for 45-50 mins. Leave to cool
slightly before turning out onto a cooling
rack. Once the cake is cool, dust with
icing sugar and cinnamon.
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