A plan comes together

Some days, everything just works out quite neatly. I found myself at a bit of a loose end today, and as often happens when that (rather unusual) occurence happens, I decided that I felt like baking something. I needed to go buy some apples too, and M&S happened to have a special offer that meant I ended up buying rather a lot more than I had initially intended to. And luckily, a couple of weeks ago, I came across a recipe for an apple cake that looked rather good - so this seemed like just the perfect opportunity! The recipe is from here, and is pretty much just anglicised and scaled down slightly...

Jewish Apple Cake
Ingredients

• 4 Small apples
• 2 1/2tsp Ground cinnamon
• 4tbsp Caster sugar
• 1tsp Lemon juice
• 175ml Sunflower oil
• 285g Caster sugar
• 4tbsp Orange juice
• 2tsp Vanilla extract
• 200g Plain flour
• 2 1/2 tsp Baking powder
• 3 Eggs
  

Method

1. Dice the apples into ~1cm cubes, discarding the cores.
2. Toss the apple chunks with the cinnamon, caster sugar and lemon juice.
3. Whisk the oil, caster sugar, orange juice and vanilla extract together.
4. Gradually fold in the flour and baking powder.
5. Beat the eggs and fold in gradually.
6. Pour half the batter into a lined cake tin and cover with half of the apple chunks. Pour the remaining batter over the top and cover with the remaining apples.
7. Bake at ~180C for ~1 hour until cooked through.

Four small apples is actually quite a bit more apple than I had thought. Here's how much I used.And the cake just ready for the oven. If only you could smell how good this smells!Here's the cake straight from the oven.What's that you say? Burned? Yup, as ever. Stupid bloody college ovens. Still looks good though!