Low Fat Apple Cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Plus 1 hour cooling time.
- Easy
- Makes Cake
Ingredients
- [In order of cooking process]
(For apple preserve)
- 2 cooking apples, quartered, skinned and sliced in bite size
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
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4 large egg whites (for the remaining yolks, refer to my Honey Custard or Double Coffee Cream recipe if you like)
- 50g granulated sugar
- 100g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 20g unsalted butter, melted
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(For decoration, if you like)
- 1 tbsp icing sugar
Method
- STEP 1Preheat the oven to 180C.
- STEP 2To make the apple preserve, put the sliced apples into the sauce pan, covering with the lemon juice and sugar, bring to the medium heat until apples goes soft but retains shape. Add the cinnamon, gently stir and remove from the heat. Set aside and cool.
- STEP 3In a bowl, to make the meringue, whisk the egg whites and sugar until stiff peaks form.
- STEP 4Sift the flour and the baking powder over the bowl and mix well with the meringue gently.
- STEP 5Add the melted butter and the apple preserve, lightly fold them into the mixture, then spoon into a tin (I use L19cm x D9cm x H9cm square non-stick).
- STEP 6Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out dry.
- STEP 7Remove the cake from the oven, leave for 5 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks to cool. Serve with sifted icing sugar if you like or whatever you like. Enjoy!
