West country cake recipe
An amazing looking cake with seasonal strawberries, will delight everyone.
Ingredients
- 100 g Peeled, cored and finely diced bramley apple
- 1 Lemon, finely grated zest and juice
- 200 g Self raising flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 25 g Cornflour
- 110 g Butter, cut into cubes
- 110 g Unrefined caster sugar
- 125 g Punnet strawberries, hulled and halved, plus 200g for decorating
- 1 Large egg
- 150 ml Milk
- 3 tbsp Brown sugar
- 100 g Strawberry jam
Details
- Cuisine: British
- Recipe Type: Cake
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 10 mins
- Cooking Time: 40 mins
- Serves: 10
Step-by-step
- Grease and line an 8inch round cake tin. Preheat the oven to 190C/ 170C fan/gas mark 5.
- Place the apple pieces in a small bowl and sir in the zest and the juice of the lemon.
- Sift the self raising flour, cornflour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Cut up the butter and rub into the flour until it resembles fine bread crumbs (you can do this in a food processor). Fold in the sugar, halved strawberries and the apple and lemon mixture. Beat together the egg and milk and fold this into the mixture.
- Pour into the baking tin and dust the surface with brown sugar. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes. Remove from the oven, and cool on a wire rack. Turn the cake out onto a plate, and then turn it back onto your serving plate so that the sugar crust is on the surface.
- In a small pan stir together the jam with 1tbsp water. Dissolve the jam and water over a gently heat until runny. Remove from the heat and cool for a few minutes. Arrange the strawberries on top of the cake, thin end pointing up. Liberally brush strawberries with the jam glaze to serve.
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