German Apple Cake
Ingredients:
Cake:
125g unsalted butter
90g sugar
1 cup plain or self raising flour, sifted
1 egg
Filling:
3 cooking apples
2 tablespoons sultanas
1 tablespoon raw sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon cloves
Juice of 1 lemon
Method:
Cake: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, add sugar and stir until it is beginning to dissolve.
Add flour and stir well, beat in egg.
Grease a 18cm cake tin and using fingers spread a little more than half the cake mixture over the bottom.
Filling: Peel, core and slice apples, place half of these in layers over cake mixture.
Mix together sultanas, sugar spices and sprinkle over apple slices.
Cover with rest of apple, sprinkle with lemon juice.
Spread remaining cake mixture on top, in spoonfuls.
Cook in moderate over for 45 minutes.
