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.  

Spiced Apple and Ginger Cake

This cake couldn't be easier to make, all the ingredients go into the bowl, mix and bake - it's that simple. The result is moist with the apples and gently spiced with ginger, cinnamon and cloves.

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Course: Baking

Cuisine: British

Keyword: apple, cake, ginger

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 319kcal

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

Metric - US Customary units

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.

Notes

Serve warm as a dessert or cold dusted with icing sugar with a nice cup of tea!

Nutrition

Calories: 319kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 48mg | Sodium: 103mg | Potassium: 200mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 385IU | Vitamin C: 9.8mg | Calcium: 48mg | Iron: 0.7mg

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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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