Dorset Apple Cake Recipe with Travelodge Foodies
I love cake! But baking, I’ve never been so good at. Recently Travelodge asked me, as part of their Travelodge Foodies campaign, to cook some regional cuisine from Bournemouth.
I scoured the internet for dishes native to Bournemouth and one of the things that came up was the Dorset Apple Cake. Cake. Decision made.
Like I said, I’m not very good at baking, but the recipe seemed pretty simple and wouldn’t take long to throw together, so I figured I was onto a winner. And I was!
I got the recipe from the BBC Good Food site and just used a different baking tin as I only had round ones.
Ingredients
- 450g cooking apples (such as Bramley)
- juice of ½ lemon
- 225g butter, softened
- 280g golden caster sugar
- 4Â eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 350g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- demerara sugar, to sprinkle
Method
1. Heat over to 180c/fan 160c/gas 4. Butter and line a baking tin (approx 27cm x 20cm) with parchment paper. (I used a round tin – though the recipe said rectangular so either is fine).
2. Peel, core and thinly slice the apples then squeeze the lemon juice all over. Set to one side.
3. Place the butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder into a larger bowl and mix well until smooth. (I was concerned the mixture was too thick, but worked great for me!).
4. Spread half the mixture into the prepared tin and arrange half the apples over the top of the mixture.
5. Then repeat as many layers as you can. (I just put lots of apples on this layer and covered with the rest of the mixture due to the size of my baking tin).
6. Sprinkle over the demarara sugar.
7. Bake for 45-50 mins until golden and springy to the touch. Then leave to cool for 10 mins.
8. Turn the cake out of the tin and remove the paper and cut up as you please.
I decided to serve with a bit of salted caramel sauce (straight from the jar!) just to modernise the dish slightly. I also served with the obligatory glass of prosecco and a slice of chocolate cake (obvs) made by a friend of mine…
Now it’s not the prettiest cake I’ve ever seen…I like to call it “rustic”, but I was super impressed (even though I do say so myself), with my baking efforts. The sponge came out light and sweet, the apples added a lovely texture to the middle of the cake and some moisture and the sugar on top gave the cake a lovely crunch. Yum!
Have you tried this cake before? If not, give it a go and let me know how you get on!
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