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Toffee apple cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- plus cooling
- Easy
- Serves 9
Ingredients
- 125g butter
- 225g dark muscovado sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 225g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 200g cooking apples, peeled, cored and diced
- 100g soft toffees, chopped into pieces
TOFFEE FROSTING
- 100g butter, at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200g icing sugar
- toffee or caramel sauce
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Put the butter and muscovado sugar in a food processor and whizz for a couple of minutes, then blend in the eggs. Add the flour and baking powder and whizz until combined. Stir in the apple and toffee pieces.
- STEP 2
Pour into a buttered, base-lined 20cm square tin and bake for 1 hour, or until risen and dark golden. Remove from the tin and cool. To make the frosting beat the butter, vanilla and icing sugar with 3 tbsp of the toffee sauce until smooth. Spread over the cake then drizzle over more sauce to finish.
