Since we have a nice crop of cooking apples coming up, this is a recipe from the Upwey Wishing Well Teahouse in Weymouth, Dorset, and comes courtesy of my mate Rentman. He's modified it very slightly just to make it simpler - and, believe me, it can’t be simpler. When at our Food Group meetings it lasts about 5 minutes!
For the base
6 oz (150g) self raising flour
4 oz (100g) butter or margarine - NOT the lite stuff, but butter is prefered
4 oz (100g) Caster sugar
2 medium or large eggs - depending on how rich you want it
A pinch of salt
A splash of milk.
For the middle
3 cooking apples - peeled, cored and chopped into 1½ cm (ish) chunks
1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder - or not if you prefer.
For the Crumble Topping
6 oz (150g) self raising flour
3 oz (75g) butter or margarine. (See note above)
3 oz (75g) Caster sugar
Mix all the base ingredients together in a bowl and beat well adding just enough milk to get a thick consistency. With no milk the mix is just a bit too stiff.
Pour into a lined cake tin of approx 8 inch (20 cm) diameter.
Rub together the Crumble top ingredients until you have a sort of breadcrumb mix, then stop! DO NOT overdo this otherwise the topping will become hard. Try adding a handful of rolled oats for a different texture.
Dust the apple pieces with the cinnamon then drop them onto the mix as evenly as you can. You don’t need to press them in.
Sprinkle the crumble mix over the apples as evenly as possible. DO NOT pat down otherwise the topping will become hard. Sprinkle a spoonful of sugar over this.
Place in the middle of a pre-heated oven at Gas mark 4 (that’s about 175 deg. centigrade) for about ½ hour or until cooked. Check by stabbing the middle with a knife. If it comes out clean it’s done. If it has mix residue on it give it another 5-10 minutes and check again - and again -until cooked.
Best served warm with ice cream or fresh cream.
You could try ringing the changes. These 3 work “coz we tried ‘em”.
Use wholemeal flour instead of white. Just add the appropriate amount of baking powder.
Throw in a slack handful of raisins with the apples.
Throw in a slack handful of rolled oats in the crumble mix.
Enjoy!
11 comments:
Sounds gorge, and is on the list accordingly.
You seem to be back on the blogging bandwagon; nice to see you about more often. :)
Looks nice and yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I will surely try this out.
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After much time fixing the kitchen I've just had time to catch up on the blogs.
Nice cake recipe. I wonder where you got that one from!
Been in the oven for hour and a half.. still not sure if cooked as knife not coming out clean.
Your oven may be a little cooler than mine. It'll have cooked eventually - but next time probably best to sneak it up by half a gas mark, or 10 degrees.
just about to give this a go, gas mark 4 translates to 180 C which may explain why Compforus was waiting so long.
I can't wait to try it!
Eek! Thanks - fixed.
Coming from dorset and missing home you can be sure I will be trying this one YUM...Thanks chicken x
Made this for work, then had to make and make again. my victoia plum tree has large crop so going to try with best plums in the world. This cake is also lovely cold.
Lynne
wonderful, gonna try with my vistoria plums. Lovely hot or cold. best cake ever
I made this cake several times last Autumn with the abundance of apples we had and I highly recommend it. It's easy to adapt too. On Friday I made the first one with this year's apples; it didn't last long. Thumbs up all round. Thank you. :)
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