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Warm Apple Coffee & Walnut Dessert Cake

Warm Apple Cake

Ideal as a warm dessert, but still delicious cold!

You will need:

1 Cup of Plain Flour
1 teaspoon baking Powder
½ teaspoon Salt
100gms white sugar
100gms of softened butter
1 free range egg
1 teaspoon of coffee essence (or 1 teaspoon instant dissolved in little hot water)
75gms of chopped Walnuts
½ cup of full cream Milk

For the topping:
1 Granny Smith or Braeburn apple, peeled, cored and diced/sliced
40gms of melted butter
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons white sugar
¼ cup of Plain Flour

Method:

Heat oven to 190c (170c fan oven)
Line bottom and lightly butter 22cms cake tin

Cream Butter and sugar well then cream in the whole egg and coffee.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt.

Add half the flour mixture to the butter mixture with half the milk, incorporate well then add remaining flour, milk and chopped walnuts. Mix well to a batter and pour into baking tin.

Combine all the topping ingredients except the flour. Coat the apples well, then remove and place on top of cake batter. Incorporate flour into remaining butter/sugar mixture, crumble well and distribute evenly over top of cake and apples.

Bake in oven for about 40 minutes. Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out and serving with either Ravenhill Thick Traditional Cream or Ice creams or Billawarra Yoghurt.