Dorset apple traybake
By Lesley Waters
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 50 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Cuts into 16 piecesSimple-to-whip-up apple cake that can be cut into bars or squares for a tea time treat
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 285
- protein
- 4g
- carbs
- 39g
- fat
- 13g
- saturates
- 8g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 23g
- salt
- 0.66g
Ingredients
- 450g cooking apples (such as Bramley)
- juice of ½ lemon
- 225g butter, softened
- 280g golden caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 350g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- demerara sugar, to sprinkle
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Method
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line a rectangular baking tin (approx 27cm x 20cm) with parchment paper. Peel, core and thinly slice the apples then squeeze the lemon juice over. Set to one side.
- Place the butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder into a large bowl and mix well until smooth. Spread half the mixture into the prepared tin. Arrange half the apples over the top of the mixture, then repeat the layers. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar. 3 Bake for 45-50 mins until golden and springy to the touch. Leave to cool for 10 mins, then turn out of tin and remove paper. Cut into bars or squares.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2006
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I've got this cooking in the oven at the moment but I've had to leave it in for another 10 mins as the middle wasn't cooked. I'm having to bake it in a halogen oven though, so maybe this is the problem? Also I found the mix was really really heavy, is it supposed to be like this or have I done something wrong? Help me!! It looks so delicious I really want to get it right :)
The apple makes this nice and moist. Little bit too sweet for me so I'd probably put in slightly less sugar next time. I didn't have the correct tray for baking this in so I used a square cake tin, which made it more of a deep cake than a tray bake but it was fine - I just cooked it on a lower heat for longer. Very tasty though and a nice way to use up the glut of Bramleys.
This overflowed the cake tin but I had expected it so put a tray underneath. Once the edges were tidied up it didn't look at all bad. It tasted really lovely (I did add cinnamon to the flour), my husband preferred it as a slab of cake, cold in his hand but I like it warmed with custard. Either way it's delish!
Nice :P i like that traybake and i buy it here: http://www.feliksa-konditoreja.com
Great recipe and I have made it several times. Can't understand why some people are having a problem with it being heavy or soggy because I have never found this at all. As I can't stand the taste of cinnamon I would never add it and don't feel that it really needs to be injected with a load more flavours. If your apples are good and flavoursome its all it needs.
