01 Sep Apple & Cider Cake
It’s British Food Fortnight and here at Hunt’s Cider we are celebrating all recipes appley! Thank you to Sima from The Kitchen Table, for this scrummy Apple & Cider Cake recipe.
Apple and Cider Cake with honey, white chocolate and curd cheese topping
Ingredients
For the cake..
175g sultanas
150ml Hunts Wobbler Cider
1tbsp brandy
225g sugar
180g butter
280g flour
1.5tsp baking powder
1tsp cinnamon
2 large eggs
1 lemon zested
2 large cooking apples
1tbsp honey
For the icing…
75g icing sugar
75g soft butter
5tbsp honey
175g white chocolate, melted
150g curd cheese
Soak the sultanas in Hunts cider and brandy overnight. Grease and line a 20cm cake tin. Peel, core and cube the apples and add them, the honey and the lemon zest to the sultanas. Beat the butter & sugar until pale. Sieve the dry ingredients together. Add one egg to the butter sugar mix and beat. Add a tablespoon of the flour mix, then another egg and another tablespoon flour. Fold in the remaining flour to the egg mix followed by the apple sultana mix. Spoon into the tin and bake at 170 degrees for 45-55 minutes. Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.
Beat together all the ingredients for the icing top and smooth over the cooled cake. Serve with hot tea or coffee 🙂
