Country Women's Association Irish Apple Cake

Name: Country Women's Association Irish Apple Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 1 cake, 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 250 g plain flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 125 g sugar; 125 g butter; 3 -4 cooking apples, peeled cored and roughly chopped; 1 egg, beaten; 1/3 cup milk

Submitted by Jubes

"From the Country Women's Association Cakes cookbook. Contributed by N. McLeod from Victoria. A simple rustic type of cake. Nice served as a dessert cake with warm custard or ice-cream. You could use a sugar substitute like 'equal' in this cake"

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Ready In:: 1hr 10mins
Ingredients:: 7
Yields:: 1 cake
Serves:: 8

ingredients

250 g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
125 g sugar
125 g butter
3 -4 cooking apples, peeled cored and roughly chopped
1 egg, beaten
¹⁄₃ cup milk

directions

Preheat oven to 180°C.
Grease a 20cm round cake tin.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and the sugar.
Cut in the butter roughly with a knife (do not rub it in).
Add the apples.
Stir in the egg and milk to make a fairly stiff mixture. The batter will appear fairly lumpy.
Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
Bake for about 1 hour.
Serve hot with custard or ice-cream.
This cake can be cooked ahead and reheated in the microwave as needed.