Apple and Almond Crumble Cake
This is a lovely moist, crumbly cake, sweet from the taste of apples. Use a firm slightly tart apple for a better finish. Serve with lemon Crème Fraîche and a dust of cinnamon.
Preparation time: 20-30 minutes Quantity: Serves 8-10 Cooking time: 1 & 1/4 hours
Ingredients
Cake mix -
250g/ 9 oz light brown sugar
250g/ 9 oz butter- softened
4 large egg yolks
4 large egg whites (from above)
250g/ 9 oz ground almonds
6 medium apples
Crumble top -
30g/ 1 oz butter -softened
90g/ 3 oz self raising flour
60g/ 2 oz light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Method
- For the cake mix cream the butter and sugar together
- Add the egg yolks gradually, beating all the time
- Stir in the almonds
- Meanwhile whisk the egg whites till stiff
- Fold the whites in to the cake mix, carefully trying not to loose the lightness
- Spoon in to a buttered tin 8-10 inch
- Make the crumble mix by rubbing the butter in to the flour, sugar and cinnamon, till it resembles bread crumbs
- Sprinkle on to the cake batter
- Place in a preheated oven gas 4/180*c for 1-1&1/4 hours or until cooked in the middle