Apple Tea Cake

Celebrating the start of Autumn with Apple Tea Cake!

For me, there is always a sense of relief when the calendar clicks over to 1 March. While the days are still warm there is a sense that the cooler weather is on its way. Summers are HOT where I live so any cool change is more than welcome in my book. So my cooking also looks to seasonal changes which means….apples! Apple Tea Cake is the perfect way to celebrate the new season and new season produce.

This cake is so light and so easy to make. Most of the ingredients you will have on hand so you can make it on a whim. I seem to prefer fruity cakes – check out my Boiled Fruit Cake, Orange Cake and my Plum Cake for other options. Fruity cakes are by their nature lighter and I always kid myself that they are so good for you because they contain said fruit!

Apples are very good for you- great for heart health, they aid management of blood pressure and are full of fibre so they are great for gut health. I think it is nice to incorporate such a beautiful fruit that has added health benefits. If you wanted to switch out some ingredients that are not such healthy options you could use coconut sugar instead of caster sugar and wholemeal flour instead of white flour. I enjoy the cake as it is however knowing that I don’t eat cake very often and when I do it is in moderation.

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A Basic But Delicious Cake

In all honesty this is my basic vanilla cake recipe with sliced apples included. Yet it is so much more than a vanilla cake. It is incredibly moist and delicate and when I serve it seconds are demanded!

So do what I did, make this Apple Tea Cake for Sunday afternoon tea and have plenty left over to send with your family to school and work. It is delicious, you won’t be disappointed.

Light, fruity and delicate. This Apple Tea Cake is easy to make and delicious.

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Apple Tea Cake

Light, fruit, delicate and delicious. A truly enjoyable cake.

Course Cake

Keyword Apple Tea Cake

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings 10

Author Jane Georgiades

Ingredients

• 2 small apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced
• 125 g butter softened
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 2 free range eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups self raising flour
• 1 cup milk

Instructions

1. Line and grease the springform cake pan. Preheat the oven to 175°C.

2. Beat the butter and sugar together until they are light and pale in colour.

3. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla.

4. Fold in the flour and milk alternately. Mix well until mixture is light and free of lumps.

5. Lastly add the apple slices and fold through the mixture.

6. Spoon mixture into the cake tin and bake for around 50 minutes, testing the cake from 40 minutes. Cover the cake with foil after it has been baking for 30 minutes so that it does not get too brown. When a skewer comes out clean it is cooked.