The very best apple dessert cake

Name: The very best apple dessert cake
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 225g self-raising flour; 1 level tsp baking powder; 225g caster sugar; 2 large eggs; ½ tsp almond extract; 150g butter, melted; 250g cooking apples, peeled and cored; 25g flaked almonds

Cook: 90 mins

225g self-raising flour

1 level tsp baking powder

225g caster sugar

2 large eggs

½ tsp almond extract

150g butter, melted

250g cooking apples, peeled and cored

25g flaked almonds

Preheat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Lightly grease a deep 20cm loose-bottomed cake tin.

Measure the flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, almond extract and melted butter into a bowl. Mix well until blended, then beat for a minute.

Spread half this mixture in the prepared tin. Thickly slice the apples and lay on top of the mixture in the tin, piling mostly towards the centre. Using 2 dessertspoons, roughly spoon the remaining mixture over the apples. This is an awkward thing to do, but just make sure that the mixture covers the centre well as it will spread out in the oven. Sprinkle with the flaked almonds.

Bake in the preheated oven for 1¼-1½ hours until golden and coming away from the sides of the tin.

This recipe is courtesy of 'Mary Berry's Christmas Collection' published by headline.

Serves
6

Cooking Time
90 minutes

Main ingredients
Flour, Fruit, Sugar

Recipe Type
Cakes & Baking, Dessert, Entertaining

Best made to serve warm but can be made the day before. And, once cooked and cold, you can wrap and freeze it for a maximum of 3 months.