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Recipe by Lesley Waters

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1. 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.
2. 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.

Per serving

285 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 39g, fat 13 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 1g, salt 0.66 g

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• little cook babs

  04 May 2009

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• yvonne knightley

  16 May 2009

  yvonne knightley commented on this recipe

  My whole family loved this cake very easy to make and lovely with custard or ice cream

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• Staykalm

  16 May 2009

  Staykalm commented on this recipe

  Tried this recipe with an after schools club I run, everyone loved this and keep asking for recipe. Very scrummy.

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• Staykalm

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• susanweldon

  25 May 2009

  susanweldon commented on this recipe

  Really excellent - and versatile! IF there's any left, very popular in lunch boxes!!

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• susanweldon

  25 May 2009

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• Swirlyjig

  27 May 2009

  Swirlyjig commented on this recipe

  Wow, I can actually bake a cake. I am fairly new to baking, and it never ceaces to amaze me when it comes out right. This was wonderful, me and my 2 year old son made it, I was a bit worried that his enthusiastic mixing would make it heavy, but nope it was light, airy and very tasty. My baking tray may have been a bit to big, I was a bit worried as I couldn't quite cover all the apple completly on the top layer and due to this I used about 3/4's of the apple, but I need not to have worried, plenty of apple flavour and plenty of cake around it all. Thank you for this web site. Off to make the apple fruit cake now!

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• Kym1984

  23 June 2009

  Kym1984 commented on this recipe

  Great recipe, very quick and easy. I made this for a Father's Day tea on Sunday and another one today because it all got eaten up really fast and everyone wanted more! I kept the recipe the same, apart from covering the chopped up apples in ground cinnamon before adding them to the cake which is really tasty.

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• Kym1984

  23 June 2009

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• janet

  17 July 2009

  janet rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this last noght as a dessert. I am living in Brisbane and as it is winter is was a wonderful comfort food. A very quick,easy and successful dessert. I agree that it is not exciting but nevetheless very good. I also replaced the apples with pears which I covered in ginger cordial which gave the fruit and the cake a fantastic hint of ginger. I would do this again but peel the pears next time as the skins were not so good.

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• nicola

  23 July 2009

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  Very easy to make the whole family loved it had with ice-cream and custard.

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• mia wallace

  21 August 2009

  mia wallace commented on this recipe

  made with apples from my garden and took in to work, everyone loved it and wants the recipe!! very easy to make great hot or cold. added cinnamon to the sugar on the top will make again.

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• mia wallace

  21 August 2009

  mia wallace rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made this with apples from my garden and took into work, everyone loved it and all want the recipe. added cinamon to the sugar on top, great hot or cold.... delicious

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• yummie

  22 August 2009

  yummie commented on this recipe

  I can't wait to make this cake tomorrow, it looks delicious, mmmmmm

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• Irene

  24 August 2009

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  I never thought something that tasted so good could be cooked so easily!

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• Gulligirl

  11 September 2009

  Gulligirl rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I found this was far too sweet. I also found that by thinly slicing the apples, the middle layer disappeared into the surrounding sponge. Won't be making this again.

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• elena

  12 September 2009

  elena rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made this yesterday as i had guests. I live in Cyprus and couldn't find cooking apples so made mine with normal eating apples. Went down really well!! Really easy to make. The cake was really light. I also added some cinammon to the apples and served this hot with ice cream. Everyone loved it. A big sucess. Will definately make again!!

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• SamanthaH

  20 September 2009

  SamanthaH rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this cake last night using small, tart apples from a tree in the garden. I found that the cake batter was a bit thick and fussy to work with but the end result was incredible! I added cinnamon and lots of sugar to combat the tartness and the end result was just heavenly. And it's even better the day after! I will definitely use this recipe again!

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• katieann

  06 October 2009

  katieann commented on this recipe

  Lovely large cake, easy to make, delicious, will make again !!!!!!

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• cookingforgirls

  08 October 2009

  cookingforgirls rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This recipe is just FAB. Some of the luke warm reviews had put me off baking it. This was time wasted - my kids want me to cook this every week. Very easy to throw together - I used Olivio instead of butter because I didn't have time to let it soften. It tastes lovely - in a no nonsense apple pie sort of way - except instead of pastry there is lovely light and golden sponge. And it cut beautifully. I didn't bother with spices, simply because I was in too much of a rush. I didn't miss them at all. The apple (plain old Bramleys) tastes absolutely lovely.

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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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Cuts into 16 pieces

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Prep 20 mins

Cook 50 mins

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

Per serving

285 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 39g, fat 13 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 1g, salt 0.66 g

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