By Janine Ratcliffe, Olive
Try our sticky apple cake topped with a toffee frosting for an beautiful afternoon tea treat that the whole family will love.
Prep: 50 mins
Total: 2 hrs 30 mins
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
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Try our sticky apple cake topped with a toffee frosting for an beautiful afternoon tea treat that the whole family will love.
Prep: 50 mins
Total: 2 hrs 30 mins
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
Ingredients
- butter 125g
- dark muscovado sugar 225g
- eggs 2, beaten
- plain flour 225g
- baking powder 2 tsp
- cooking apples 200g, peeled, cored and diced
- soft toffees 100g, chopped into pieces
TOFFEE FROSTING
- butter 100g, at room temperature
- vanilla extract 1 tsp
- icing sugar 200g
- toffee or caramel sauce
Method
Step 1
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Put the butter and muscovado sugar in a food processor and whizz for a couple of minutes, then blend in the eggs. Add the flour and baking powder and whizz until combined. Stir in the apple and toffee pieces.Step 2
Pour into a buttered, base-lined 20cm square tin and bake for 1 hour, or until risen and dark golden. Remove from the tin and cool. To make the frosting beat the butter, vanilla and icing sugar with 3 tbsp of the toffee sauce until smooth. Spread over the cake then drizzle over more sauce to finish.See more at Olive
