APPLE CAKE ANNA DEL CONTE

APPLE CAKE ANNA DEL CONTE image

Categories Apple

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients:
120 g Sultanas
120 ml Olive oil
200 g Sugar
2 Free range eggs
350 g Italian 00 Flour
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp Sea Salt
450 g Dessert apples (peeled and cut into small cubes)
Organic lemon

Steps:

How to: 1. Soak the sultanas in warm water for 20 mins or so. 2. Heat the oven to 180 degrees (mark 4). 3. Pour the oil into the bowl, add the sugar and beat until the sugar and oil becomes homogenised. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until the mixture has grown in volume and looks like a thin mayonnaise. 4. Sieve the flour, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar and salt. Ass gradually to the oil and sugar mixture, folding them in with a metal spoon. Mix thoroughly and then add the apples and the lemon rind. 5. Drain and dry the sultanas and add the mixture. Mix very thoroughly. The mixture will be stiff, with the appearance of pieces of apple and sultanas coated with cake mixture. 6. Butter and flour a 20cm spring-clip tin. Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for at least 1 hr, until a toothpick int he middle of the cake comes out dry. 7. Remove the cake from the tin and cool on a wire rack.