Description
A cake made with pantry basics, flavored with seasonal fruit and your favorite spices.
Ingredients
Scale
- 180g plain flour
- 100g caster sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 100g unsalted butter, diced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 4 baking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 50g light brown sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 220º C/Gas Mark 7.
- Use fingers to combine flour, sugar, salt, butter and cardamom until mixture looks like coarse sand.
- Reserve 75g of crumb mixture and press remainder into a 20cm springform cake tin.
- Combine apples with brown sugar and arrange on top of crumb mixture in tin.
- Sprinkle reserved crumbs on apples.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until cake is golden and fruit juice is bubbling.
- Cool on rack for 10 minutes before serving.
Notes
Vary this recipe with seasonal fruit and choose a spice to complement the fruit – rhubarb and nutmeg, peaches and ginger, blueberries and lemon zest, etc.
Serve warm with ice cream or a splash of double cream or as the centerpiece of a Yankee breakfast.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins