We made this for Mr S the other day as it is low in sugar but does not have any bananas in it (which he hates). It is a healthy recipe that Mr S learned at college and he now uses for the old folk at his place of work. It is kind of in between a scone, a cake, and a pie in texture, but was nice. Again, we are using up foraged apples. I think that most things that we eat this winter will have an apple theme! It is a frugal cake to make, especially if you can forage for some apples, as we can.
Ingredients
2 apples
200g of Self Raising Flour
100g sugar
100g butter or margarine
1 egg
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160C (fan) or 180C
- Grease and line a six or seven inch cake tin (with false bottom if possible)
- Chop the apple up into thin slices or small chunks and microwave in a just a splash of water, cooking until soft,
- Mix the sugar and the flour together in a bowl and then rub in the fat to resemble bread crumbs.
- Add the egg to bind the mixture together.
- Take half of the mixture and press it down into the bottom of the cake tin.
- Place the apples on top to cover the bottom layer
- Spread the other half of the mixture on top. I found this quite sticky and so put a bit of flour on the back of a spoon and did it. In the original recipe it said it could be rolled but ours couldn’t.
- Place in the over and cook for 30 to 49 minutes until a skewer comes out of the top clean and it is a slight golden brown colour.
- Leave in the tin for 10 minutes before removing and placing on a cooling rack.
This is nice as a dessert served cold, or is lovely warm with custard. Store in an air tight tin. I froze half of ours, as cakes made with fresh fruit can go mouldy if left for a long time in a tin.
I want to try this. Im diabetic, so should b perfect.
Yes, Mr S makes it for the diabetics at work. Thanks for commenting
Thank you 😊
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Sounds lovely I’ll try this thank you
I hope that you like it. Thanks for commenting
I love the sound of this! Nice, easy recipe too… 🙂
Those easy recipes are the best when you are tired, aren’t they? Thanks for your feedback
Sounds delicious, I’m in the mood for it now but have no apples 🤦♀️. Will try it soon and I’m so happy with this platform as I don’t have to save anything, just scroll back, thanks Toni xxx
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Can you use cooking apples in this?
I can’t see why not, but obviously the middle will not be as sweet. I used one of each and I could have stood it being a bit more sour. I haven’t tried it with cooking apples, though.
Thank you Toni, something else I can do with Apple’s that will fut in with my diet.
Precisely. I am trying to be good too! Thanks for commenting
Brilliant I need to use up more apples . Thank you Toni
We have been for some more today as we found a gorgeous red apple tree. I must have a couple of hundred left! No worries. Thanks for commenting
This sounds great, will be making this in France as we have a huge apple tree in our neighbours garden, we have free reign to pick them x
That is a brilliant free resource. Thanks for sharing
I’m going to have a go at this , we love anything with apples
Brilliant. We have found that it goes too soft if left for more than 3 days and so tend to freeze some of it if we do not have company. Thanks for sharing