This Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake couldn’t be more simple to make, you put all the ingredients into a bowl, mix and bake you don’t even need a mixer, just a wooden spoon! It’s a perfect tea time treat.
My ‘Discovery’ apple tree is 5 years old and this year, for the first time, I had a large enough crop to start developing different ways to use the apples. We all love apple crumble and apple pie, however, I do like to have a nice ‘cut and come again’ cake in the cake tin to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee.
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I used butter from The Softer Butter Company which is 100% butter but softer which makes it ideal for baking. It spreads really easily too and is available at Tesco or Morrisons for around £1.45 for 250 g.
This ‘Star Baker’ cake tin is perfect to store your Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake. It’s an official Love Productions ‘The Great British Bake Off’ Personalised Cake Tin, a 27 cm diameter x 13 cm high cake tin which comes with a whiteboard marker and eraser top. It’s great fun to add your name to the tin or, as I have done, then bake that you have inside. The Great British Bake Off Personalised Cake Tin is available from Debenhams for £13.00 alongside a range of other Bake Off bakeware and kitchenware.
I’m entering the Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake for Simple and in Season the recipe linky for seasonal treats run by Katie at Feeding Boys.
Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake is also my ‘Bake of the Week’ joining Helen at Casa Costello and friends in sharing our bakes.
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Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake
Ingredients
- 225 g self-raising flour
- 1 level tsp baking powder
- 1 lemon grated rind
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 100 g soft brown sugar
- 75 g mixed dried fruit
- 25 g chopped crystallised ginger
- 100 g soft butter or margarine
- 1 egg beaten
- 4 tbsp milk
- 450 g tart apples Bramley, Discovery, Granny Smith
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 180C
- Peel, core and chop the apples
- Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix together until thoroughly blended.
- Turn into a 20 cm greased and lined cake tin.
- Level the top and bake for about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- The cake should be golden brown and shrinking from the sides of the tin.
- Cool for 5 minutes in the tin, then turn onto a cooling tray.
Charlie @ The Kitchen Shed says
This looks SO delicious! I love a simple cake too, (Im a rubbish baker!)
Janice Pattie says
Thank you very much, we certainly enjoyed it Charlie.
Elizabeth says
This looks like the perfect Autumn comfort food bake on these cold, windy afternoons. Gorgeous!
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Elizabeth, the weather has finally broken, so cosy days in with cake are in order!
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says
This sounds lovely – you really can’t beat an apple cake at this time of year, especially with all those spices. Yum yum 🙂
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Becca, it’s such an easy bake too.
Dom says
oh yes that looks so good… love the knobbly top and how fab that it can all go into one bowl and stir! So easy… a gorgeous cake. Very jealous of your tree!
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Dom, simple recipes appeal to me and I know you love them too. I’m thinking of getting more fruit trees, I love being able to pick my own fruit.
Emma @ Adventures of a London Kiwi says
Now this is 100% my kind of baking – easy and scrumptious!
Janice Pattie says
Mine too Emma! Glad you like it, thank you.
Fiona Maclean says
I love the sound of this! I wonder how well it would freeze? I NEED to freeze cakes or I eat the entire thing in one sitting (I usually quarter and freeze ‘portions’)
Janice Pattie says
I don’t see why it wouldn’t freeze well, Fiona. It’s basically a fruit cake.
Helen at Casa Costello says
What a great recipe that everything can be mixed in one bowl – I always feel so virtuous when I use home grown produce! Thanks once again for joining in with #BakeoftheWeek
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Helen
Katie says
I love a fruity bake at this time of year, so I’m imagining a generous slice of this with a huge cup of coffee… yum! Thanks so much for joining in with this month’s round of Simple and in Season. xxx
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Katie, nothing nicer than a slice of homemade cake
Samantha Brown says
Hi – is it 450g of apples once they are peeled and cored or before? Thank you!
Janice Pattie says
Hi Samantha, It’s 450g after peeling and coring. I’ll update the recipe to make it clearer. Thanks.
Camilla Hawkins says
Spiced Apple & Ginger Cake sounds like a match made in foodie heaven! Thank you for including my cake recipe:-)