Recipe : Apple Cake

For Autumn, when I harvest some apples, its inevitable for me to bake ! , and this time I opted to bake adding something Bolivian, Singani .. 

I remember in Bolivia, my mum used to add some singani in a cake batter or at the end when decorating. And this time I added some to the batter, you can replace it with some rum ;)

Ingredients :

1 Cup of plain flour 

1 Teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

75 g of unsalted butter at room temperature 

2/3 cup of granulated sugar ( more for sprinkling at the end)

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 

3 tablespoons of singani or dark rum 

2 baking apples peeled, cored and cut into cubes, and you can use another apple, peeled, cored and sliced to decorate at the end 

Icing sugar, to decorate at the end optional.

Instructions :

Preheat the oven to gas mark 4, and grease and line a 20 cm /8 inch round tin.

combine the flour, baking powder and salt and leave it aside.

With a handheld mixer cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add the eggs , one at the time and beating well, then add the vanilla and singani/rum and mix again, do not worry if the mixture looks a bit grainy.

Add the flour and mix on low speed until just combined. then add the chopped apples and fold them into the batter with a spoon or spatula. 

Scrape the batter into a prepared tin and you can decorate with the sliced apple if you want. Then sprinkle some sugar on the top and bake in the middle of the preheated oven for approximately 45 mins.

When its done take the cake out of the tin and let it cool slightly and dust some icing sugar on top if you want. you can serve it with whipped cream or custard, the cake can be served a bit warm or at room temperature.

Enjoy ! xx