Apple & Almond Cake

My beautiful friend Sarah is coming to see me later. I'm going to fatten her up with this scrummy apple cake. 

Ingredients

225g self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

225g golden caster sugar

150g butter (melted)

2 eggs

1 tsp almond essence

1 tbsp milk

2 bramley cooking apples

juice of ½ a lemon 

25g whole almonds (roughly sliced) 

Preheat the oven to 160°C. Grease and line an 8" loose bottomed cake tin. 

Peel, quarter and core the apples. Slice into thin pieces and place in a bowl with the lemon juice. This will stop them from discolouring. Next, place the flour, baking powder, sugar, melted butter, eggs, almond essence and milk in a big bowl and beat into a thick, smooth batter. Place half of the mixture in the bottom of the cake tin. Top with the apple pieces and cover with the rest of the cake batter. Press the chopped almonds on to the top. Pop in the oven for 1¼ -1½ hours until golden cooked through. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool a little more. Share with special friends, like Sarah. 

golden delicious