Dorset Apple Cake Recipes

DORSET APPLE TRAYBAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a rectangular baking tin (approx 27 x 20cm) with baking parchment. Peel, core and thinly slice the apples, then squeeze over the lemon juice. Set aside.
• Put the butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder into a large bowl and mix well until smooth. Spread half the mixture into the prepared tin. Arrange half the apples over the top of the mixture, then repeat the layers. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar.
• Bake for 45-50 mins until golden and springy to the touch. Leave to cool for 10 mins, then turn out of the tin and remove the paper. Cut into bars or squares.

DORSET APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a deep 20cm cake tin with baking parchment.
• Mix the flour and cinnamon together in a large bowl. Add the butter and rub into the flour using your fingers, until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the light brown sugar. Beat in the egg followed by 6-8 tbsp of milk - add it gradually until you have a smooth, thick batter.
• Add the apples and sultanas and mix to combine. Scrape the batter into the prepared tin and gently level out. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar, if using, and bake for 30-40 mins or until golden and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
• Allow to cool in the tin for 15 mins and then carefully turn out onto a wire rack to cool further. Best served still warm with a little custard.

DORSET APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Step 1 Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (gas mark 4).
• Step 2 Grease and line a 7″, round cake tin. (How to line your tin video here)
• Step 3 Toss the apple with the lemon juice and set aside. Sift the flour and baking powder together then rub in the butter, until the mix resembles breadcrumbs.
• Step 4 Stir 115 g of the sugar, the apple and the egg, mix well, adding a little of the milk at a time to make a soft doughy mix.
• Step 5 Transfer into your tin.
• Step 6 In a bowl, mix the 50g of soft brown sugar, sliced apple and cinnamon, arrange on top of the cake mix.
• Step 7 Bake for 45-50 minutes. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire cooling rack.

DORSET APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Rub butter into flour.
• Stir in baking powder.
• In a separate bowl, stir sugar into the chopped apples and raisins.
• Add egg and milk and mix gently to a firm sticky dough, add sugared apple pieces & raisins and mix again.
• Scrape into greased or buttered 8x8inch cake pan. Wet hands and press mixture into pan.
• Bake for 30minutes at 330F, 165°C.

DORSET APPLE CAKE (TRAYBAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 and prepare your baking tin by greasing it generously and lining the bottom with some baking paper.
• Put the flour into the large bowl, add baking powder and cinnamon and give it all a mix with a whisk. Alternatively, feel free to sieve your dry ingredients into the bowl.
• Add softened butter.
• Rub butter into the flour with your fingers (you could use mixer or food processor if you wanted to) until the mix resembles wet sand.
• Add sugar and give it all a light mix. Set aside.
• Peel, core and thinly slice your apples and place them in a large bowl. Squeeze the juice of half lemon over them to prevent them from getting brown. Set aside.
• Add your lightly beaten eggs into the flour/sugar and mix them in gently.
• Start adding milk and mixing it in slowly bit by bit until it's all gone and you have thick, batter like mixture.
• Add most of your sliced apple to the cake batter, saving some slices to put on top. Mix them in only just and pour in the mixture into prepared cake tin.
• Smooth the surface of the cake mixture with spatula and arrange your remaining apple slices on top in any fashion you want.
• Sprinkle demerara sugar on top and bake in preheated oven for 50-55 min until nice and golden brown and the skewer inserted into centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Important! Once you take your cake out of the oven, let it cool in the tin for good 20 minutes before you take it out onto the rack to cool completely.
• Serve dusted with icing sugar or slightly warm with cream or ice cream. Enjoy!