Dad’s Birthday special>> Apple Cinnamon Cake

A few days back, a friend in her status update wrote - ‘ate the best Apple Cinnamon Cake ever’. Oh boy, just reading that made me want to eat it, right there, right then. I set to search for online recipes and found a lovely recipe from Best recipes. It was quite a find, that site!

And since it is dad’s birthday today, I had enough reason to take the plunge. It came out great and the subtle cinnamon flavour was tantalizing :).

I followed the recipe to the t, but made just one addition. I added about 1/4 cup milk to the batter.

 

(I’ve changed it a tad bit. You might want to refer to the original recipe the link for which I have provided above)

you’ll need

Filling:

2 apples, peeled and thinly sliced

1 cup castor sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon powder

1/2 tsp lemon rind- finely grated

1 cup water

 

Cake batter:

2 cups self raising flour

1 cup castor sugar

4 eggs

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

180 gms softened unsalted butter

1/2 cup milk (my addition)

 

Method:

• Grease and line tray. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees.
• In a pan mix all the filling ingredients and cook until the apples are soft. Cool and drain. Keep aside.
• Sift the flour with cinnamon powder and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, using an electric beater beat butter and sugar until soft and light.
• Add eggs and beat some more.
• To the mixture slowly fold in the flour and mix well.
• Add in the lemon rind too.
• Add half of this mixture to the cake tin.
• Top it with the apple mixture.
• Add the rest of the batter on top of the batter evenly.
• Bake for 40 minutes or until a fork comes out clean when inserted.

 

Dust over with icing sugar. This is a must :)

Cool it for sometime before attacking it!!

 

Top tip: Use more lemon rind!

 

 

 

Go, bake! Happy Birthday, Daddy!