Kerry Apple Cake
This simple Irish Apple Cake requires minimal ingredients that whips up quick filled with sweet apples topped with warm spices.
Servings 10
Calories 349kcal
Ingredients
- 175 grams / 6 ounces butter room temperature
- 175 grams / ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons superfine/caster sugar
- 110 grams / 2 large eggs room temperature and whisked
- 225 grams / 1 ⅓ cups + 1 tablespoon plain flour
- 4 grams / 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 medium apples peeled, cored and sliced
- 2 grams / 1 teaspoon lemon peel
- 12 grams / 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and line a cake tin with greaseproof paper.
- Toss the butter and sugar into a bowl and whip until pale and fluffy, approximately 3 minutes.
- Toss the flour and baking powder into a separate small bowl and stir to combine.
- Add ⅓ of the eggs and flour mixture and whip on the lowest setting until combined.
- Repeat adding in another ⅓ of the eggs and flour in portions, until smooth and no dry portions remain in the base of the bowl.
- Stir in the apple and lemon zest until combined.
- Spoon into your prepared tin and smooth out.
- (Optional) You can choose to throw in all the apples into the batter or you can top the cake with ½ the apples for a bit more of a visual detail to the cake.
- Sprinkle over the sugar and spices.
- Bake for 1 hour, until golden and the edges are beginning to pull away from the tin.
- Allow to cool before topping with an optional sprinkle of powdered sugar.
- Slice, serve and dig in!
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Notes
- Apples: The most traditional to use would be a Bramley Cooking Apple, but for those who cannot source one, a Granny Smith or Royal Gala is the best replacement. These apples have a firm texture that hold their shape during baking and a slight sweetness.
- Slicing the apples: The way the apples are cut for the cake for asthetic reasons. If you want to steamline the preparation time, feel free to cube all the apples and toss them all into the batter at the same time.
- Cake tin: A spring form tin that is 20 cm or 8 inches was used, however, a standard cake tin of similar size would also work well.
Nutrition
Calories: 349kcal