Mary Berry's Apple Cake
A decadent sponge with apple tart is what you get from this Mary Berry apple cake. A perfect company for your cuppa.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr 15 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 large green apples (I use granny smith.)
- 6 ounces self-raising flour.
- 6 ounces caster sugar.
- 2 large eggs.
- 1 stick salted butter (melted.)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to gas 4/ 180℃/ 356℉. Line the sides and bottom of a round 20-cm/ 8-in baking pan.
- 2
Peel, core and thinly slice apples. Soak them in water, and set them aside.
- 3
In a mixing bowl, place the eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract. Beat them with a wooden spoon, a handheld mixer, or a hand whisk until the sugar dissolves.
- 4
Fold in the flour, followed by the melted butter. Stir well until there are no lumps in the batter.
- 5
Drain the sliced apples and dry them with a kitchen towel/ paper.
- 6
Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. Then arrange apple slices on the top, leaving some apples for decoration.
- 7
Put the other half of the batter over the apples and spread it as evenly as possible. It may be tricky as the batter is sticky.
- 8
Lastly, arrange the remaining apple over the batter.
- 9
Bake the cake for about 1 ¼ hours.
- 10
Once the cake is baked - you can spring test it - leave it to cool for 15 minutes in the pan, before taking it out of the pan.