An apple a day…
This is a recipe for Suzi, a friend from work, who told me that she had some apples that needed using up! Suz, the apple pie recipe I posted below is almost no work at all (easy as pie? Wa-ha-ha-ha!), but in case that doesn’t take your fancy…
Apple tea cake (sans pictures as I haven’t made it right now due to stuuuudy)
Ingredients
185g butter
2 tsp grated lemon zest
2/3 cup caster sugar
3 eggs, at room temperature
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup plain flour
1/3 cup whole-fat milk
2 apples, cored, peeled and thickly sliced lengthways
1. Line a springform cake tin and preheat oven to 175 degrees C
2. Beat butter, caster sugar and lemon zest till nice and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition (the mixture may look curdled, but don’t worry too much, this doesn’t affect the flavour).
3. Pour into a cake tin, then arrange apple slices on top. Put into the oven, and bake for 50-60 minutes.
After it’s baked and cooled, brush the top with melted butter, and then sprinkle on some cinnamon sugar. Mmmmm…
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This is particularly good on a cold Autumn afternoon, with a mug of tea!
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Ellie Oh god, I’m much the same. Apple is a weakness, my favourite after-dinner snack being ripe fuji apples (extremely dense, crisp and sweet japanese apple with a dull red skin but intense honey centre - http://www.bestapples.com/varieties/fuji.html)!
Keep the fuji in mind if you ever get the notion to try a baked apple dessert - they’re the ones I used for my apple pie, and as you can see, they keep their form perfectly when baked!
This sounds fab.. anything with apples is sure to get me to drool (picture present or not) - have tucked it away in my “appley goodness” section of my recipe notebook, tyvm =)
Okay.. chocolate chip muffins. Should I be alarmed? Muffins are pretty damn close to cupcakes.. you are being very brave young soldier! I will think of you often around the time that I *think* you’ll be making them.. I’ll also be wrapping all my spare linens, which I would have cut into strips, to make home made bandages in case, well.. you know.. the muffs win. *shudder* Good luck my friend.. good luck!