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APPLE AND DATE CAKE

A moist and very yummy cake!

Ingredients

  • Vegetarian
  • 2 green apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
  • 1 cup chopped pitted dates
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 125g butter
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups plain flour, sifted

TOPPING:

  • 60g butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 1/2 cup shredded coconut
  • 2 tablespoons milk

Method

  1. Place apples, dates and soda in a bowl. Pour over boiling water. Allow to stand until cool.
  2. Beat butter and sugar together in another bowl until thick and creamy. Blend in egg and vanilla. Fold flour and apple mixture (including all the juice) alternately into creamed mixture.
  3. Spread into a greased and lined 23cm springform tin.
  4. Bake in a moderate oven (180ºC) for 45 minutes.
  5. To prepare topping: place butter, sugar, coconut and milk in a small saucepan. heat, stirring, until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved
  6. Remove cake from oven. Spread topping evenly over the top of cake.
  7. Bake for a further 15 minutes or until topping is golden and a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool completely in the tin. Carefully remove sides of the tin. Transfer cake to a serving plate.
  8. When I line a springform tin, I just tear off a rectangle of baking paper, place it over the base and clip the sides to the tin, keeping it in place. Then when I come to put the cake onto a serving dish, I use the paper to ease it onto the plate- get one corner and fold under then keep removing paper as cake goes onto plate if you kind of know what I mean!

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