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Caramel and Apple Cake

Caramel and Apple Cake is a seriously yummy cake. Just perfect for the autumnal glut of apples, and once eaten, you’ll want to make it again and again.

Grease or oil and line a cake tin.


You will need

For the caramel apples

50 g soft brown sugar
45 g butter
2 cored, peeled and chopped dessert apples

Add the sugar and butter to a shallow frying pan and heat on a low light to allow the sugar to melt - don’t stir it.

Add the apples and increase the heat. Stir all around and when the bubbles are getting bigger, turn the heat off and cool.



For the cake

200 g butter
150 g sugar
1 tablespoon youhurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons maple syrup
3 eggs and 3 tablespoons of milk
210 g self raising flour
1 level teaspoon cinnamon
Grating of nutmeg

Add the butter, sugar, yoghurt, vanilla, maple syrup and beat together

Sieve the cinnamon and flour and nutmeg and fold a little of the mixture into the butter mix

Beat in the eggs and the milk

Fold in , beat in the rest of the flour into the mix

Line the tin with the apples

Bake at170ºC, 325ºF, Gas 3 for 30 - 40 minutes depending on the size of the cake

When cooled, spike the cake and drizzle the topping over the top


For the topping

1 heaped tablespoon icing sugar
3 tablespoons maple syrup