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Dorset Double Apple Cake

By OcadoLife
Recipe author Tom Hunt says: “I grew up in Dorset eating apple cake. This is my hearty planet-friendly version, made with wholemeal spelt flour and twice the apple that you find in most recipes.” Looking for more cake…
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Ingredients

7 total
  • 220 g of wholemeal spelt flour
  • 2 tsp of baking powder
  • 1 tsp of ground allspice or cinnamon
  • 120 g of dark muscovado sugar
  • 150 g of lightly salted butter, melted
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 500 g of bramley apples, cores removed and cut into large chunks

Method

4 steps

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan/gas 4 and grease a 20cm cake tin.

  2. Step 2

    In a bowl, mix together the spelt flour, baking powder, ground allspice or cinnamon and 100g of the sugar. Add the melted butter and beaten eggs, stirring until fully combined.

  3. Step 3

    Stir the apple chunks into the mixture, pour into the prepared cake tin and spread out evenly. Sprinkle the remaining sugar over the top and bake for 1 hr.

  4. Step 4

    Leave to cool for a few mins, then remove from the tin and serve warm, or leave to cool on a wire rack.