Butter apple cake by Nadiya Hussain
A delicious, moreish butter apple cake recipe.
Recipe by Nadiya Hussain
This is one of the first cakes I ever made. I don’t remember where I saw the recipe (an old cookery book perhaps, or a magazine cutting), but I’ve wanted to recreate it for years and finally did. I love the apples in this cake, and the buttery, sugary crust that sits on top at the end. Totally moreish.
Ingredients
Serves 8
For the cake
- 125g unsalted butter, softened
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 125g self-raising flour, sieved
- tsp ground nutmeg
- medium green apples, peeled and diced into 1cm cubes
- 50g caster sugar
For the butter topping
- 60g unsalted butter, melted
- 60g caster sugar
- a pinch of salt
To finish / serve
- icing sugar, to dust
- clotted cream
Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan. Grease the base and sides of a 23cm cake tin and line with baking paper.
Step 2
Put the soft butter into a mixing bowl with the caster sugar, eggs, flour and nutmeg. Mix everything on a high speed for 2 minutes, until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Step 3
Pour the mixture into the tin and level off the top. Sprinkle on the apple cubes, sprinkle over the sugar, and bake for 25 minutes.
Step 4
To make the butter topping, put the melted unsalted butter and caster sugar into a bowl with the salt, and mix really well.
Step 5
After the cake has had 25 minutes in the oven, take it out, drizzle over the butter-sugar mixture and bake for a further 10–15 minutes.
Step 6
Leave to cool in the tin for 20 minutes, then remove and leave to cool on a rack.
Step 7
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