Nicky's Kitchen SanctuaryApple Crumble Cake Recipe
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Ingredients
Serves 16- 1 tbsp lemon juice (fresh or from a bottle)
- 175 g (6 oz) eating apples - which is about 1 apple
- 550 g (19.5 oz) cooking apples (such as Bramley apples - which is about 2 large apples)
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 tbsp double/heavy cream
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 150 g (3/4 cup) unsalted butter (melted)
- 180 g (1 cup) soft light brown sugar
- 2 cups (360g) golden caster sugar
- 2 tbsp demerara course sugar
- 2 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour (for mixing with the apples)
- 210 g (1 3/4 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 230 g (1 cup) unsalted butter (melted)
- 350 g (3 cups minus 1 tbsp) plain(all-purpose) flour
- 4 tsp baking powder ((I know, 4 tsp sounds like a lot, but it's correct. Just make sure it's 4 level tsp))
- 90 g (2/3 cup) icing/confectioner’s sugar
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Steps
- Step 1
First, make your crumble by mixing the sugar, butter and cinnamon in a large bowl. Add the flour and mix with a spoon until you have a crumbly mixture. Set aside.
- Step 2
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F (fan). Line a 24cmx24cm (9 1/2 inch x 9 1/2 inch) square baking tin with baking parchment. Note - the sides of the tin need to be at least 8cm/3.1 inches high as the cake will spill over if the sides aren't high enough.
- Step 3
Peel and core the apples and chop them into bite-sized chunks. Mix the apples with the lemon juice to stop them turning brown. Then mix with the 2 tbsp of flour.
- Step 4
In a large bowl, mix the melted butter with the caster sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Mix in the eggs and then fold in the flour, baking powder and salt. Gently stir the apples into the cake mixture.
- Step 5
Spoon the mixture into the prepared baking tin.
- Step 6
Sprinkle the crumble mixture over the top (I like to have a mix of small and large chunks) and then sprinkle over the demerara sugar.
- Step 7
Place in the oven and cook for 45-55 minutes - until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cover with foil for the last 10-15 minutes if it's starting to look too brown.
- Step 8
Take out of the oven and leave to cool in the tray for 10 minutes, then remove from the tray and leave to cool completely on a cooling rack.
- Step 9
Once cool, whisk together the icing sugar, half of the cream and the vanilla extract. If it looks drizzle-able stop there. If not, continue to add more cream until you get a thick but pourable mixture. Drizzle over the top of the cake using a spoon, or you can use a piping bag (like I did) to get the neat lines of drizzle.
- Step 10
Cut into 16 pieces and serve.
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First, make your crumble by mixing the sugar, butter and cinnamon in a large bowl. Add the flour and mix with a spoon until you have a crumbly mixture. Set aside.
Source: Nicky's Kitchen Sanctuary
