Apple Cake Traybake

Apple Traybake

Do you have apples from your back garden? This is a quick Apple Traybake for an autumn Sunday afternoon tea.

Ingredients: 

• 350g Self Raising Flour
• 4-5 large Cooking Apples
• Juice of ½ Lemon
• 225g soft Butter
• 225g Golden Caster Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 2 tsps Vanilla Extract
• 2 tsps Baking Powder
• Cinnamon (optional)
• Demerara Sugar for sprinkling on top of cake

For decoration

•  Icing Sugar (optional)

How to:

1. Heat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a rectangular baking tin (approx 27cm x 20cm) with parchment paper.
2. Peel, core and cut apples into squares, not too small. Then squeeze the lemon juice over them. Set to one side. Flavour with cinnamon if you want
3. Place the flour, butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and baking powder into a large bowl and mix well until smooth.
4. Spread half of the mixture into the prepared tin. Arrange all the apples over the top, then add the other half of the mixture. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar.
5. Bake for 45-50 mins until golden and springy to the touch.
6. Leave to cool for 10 mins, then turn out of tin and remove paper. Cut into bars or squares.
7. Dust with icing sugar before serving, if liked. Delicious hot with ice cream or custard. Also very tasty served cold with a cuppa!

Note:

• For a decorative touch, reserve a few of the sliced apples from the filling and place on top of the batter. Bake as directed and dust with icing sugar when cooled.