Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake
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.
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Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake
Equipment
- weighing scales
- Measuring spoons
- Lemon zester or grater
- Large bowl
- electric mixer optional
- wooden spoon
- Vegetable peeler
- Sharp knife
- chopping board
- 20 cm (8 in) round deep cake tin
- Cooling rack
- baking parchment or liner
Ingredients
- 225 grams (2 cups) self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon (1) baking powder
- 1 lemon grated rind
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
- 100 grams (3½ oz) soft brown sugar
- 100 grams (3½ oz) soft butter or margarine
- 1 (1) egg beaten
- 4 tablespoon milk
- 450 grams (3¼ cups) tart apples Bramley, Discovery, Granny Smith
- 75 grams (⅔ cups) mixed dried fruit
- 25 grams (2 tbsp) chopped crystallised ginger
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 180℃ Fan (200 ℃) 400℉
- Place into a large mixing bowl 225 g (2 cups) self-raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder, grated rind of 1 lemon, ½ tsp ground ginger, ½ tsp cinnamon, ¼ tsp ground cloves, 100 g (3½ oz) soft brown sugar, 100g (3½ oz) softened butter, 1 egg and 4 tbsp milk.
- Mix together with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer until thoroughly blended.
- Peel, core and finely chop 450g (3¼ cups) apples.
- Stir in the chopped apples and 75 g (⅔ cup) mixed dried fruit and 25 g (2 tbsp) chopped crystalised ginger.
- Turn into a 20 cm (8 in) greased and lined deep 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.
- Serve warm as a dessert or cold dusted with icing sugar with a nice cup of tea!
This looks SO delicious! I love a simple cake too, (Im a rubbish baker!)
Thank you very much, we certainly enjoyed it Charlie.
This looks like the perfect Autumn comfort food bake on these cold, windy afternoons. Gorgeous!
Thanks Elizabeth, the weather has finally broken, so cosy days in with cake are in order!
This sounds lovely – you really can’t beat an apple cake at this time of year, especially with all those spices. Yum yum 🙂
Thanks Becca, it’s such an easy bake too.
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!
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.
Now this is 100% my kind of baking – easy and scrumptious!
Mine too Emma! Glad you like it, thank you.
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’)
I don’t see why it wouldn’t freeze well, Fiona. It’s basically a fruit cake.
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
Thanks Helen
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
Thanks Katie, nothing nicer than a slice of homemade cake
Hi – is it 450g of apples once they are peeled and cored or before? Thank you!
Hi Samantha, It’s 450g after peeling and coring. I’ll update the recipe to make it clearer. Thanks.
Spiced Apple & Ginger Cake sounds like a match made in foodie heaven! Thank you for including my cake recipe:-)
could I bake this in a 2lb loaf tin? If so how long for? thank you this is a great place to find recipes
Hi Elizabeth. I haven’t tried baking it in a loaf tin so I’m afraid I can’t advise.