Easiest Way to Make Perfect Dorest Apple Cake

Dorest Apple Cake. Edd Kimber creates a rustic bake with chunks of sweet apple and a crunchy demerara sugar topping. This Dorset Apple Cake can be a day-long adventure (at least it was for me)! Because it's best eaten on the day it is baked, I'd recommend that you bake it first thing in the morning.

How to Make A Traditional Dorset Apple Cake. This simple Dorset Apple Cake (Traybake) made with cooking apples (Bramley) and gently spiced with cinnamon is incredibly moist & delicious. Perfect on its own with cup of tea or slightly warm with ice. You can have Dorest Apple Cake using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dorest Apple Cake

1. You need 120 g of chilled butter, diced into small cubes.
2. It's 230 g of self-raising flour.
3. It's 2 tsp of sweet ground cinnamon.
4. Prepare 120 g of dark brown sugar.
5. It's 1 of egg, beaten.
6. You need 5-8 tbsp of milk.
7. It's 300 g of apples such as Bramley, peeled and diced.

While apples are abundant and cheap, it's the ideal time to bake a classic British apple cake? But which apple variety is best and does a cheese topping work? This is my version of Dorset Apple Cake based on an old sounding recipe I found online. I've converted it to metric and made the recipe more specific.

Dorest Apple Cake step by step

1. Heat the oven to 180c. Butter the bottom of a round cake tin and then line with greaseproof paper..
2. Mix the cinnamon with the flour then add the butter and using your fingers rub together until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the brown sugar. Mix in the egg and then the milk (add it slowly until you have a smooth but thick batter, you may not need to add the 8 spoons of milk)..
3. Add the apples and mix well to combine. Pour the batter into the greaseproofed paper lined tin and gently spread out until its even..
4. Bake for 35-45 mins or until golden. Test with a skewer, if inserted into the middle of the cake and it comes out clean then the cake is mostly cooked through..
5. Allow to cool until able to handle cake tin with hands. Carefully transfer to a cooling rack..
6. Serve with custard or cream. It is better when the cake is warm..

This traditional British apple cake is fabulously moist with a slightly crisp topping. Place the apple pieces in a bowl with the lemon juice and toss well. Cream together the butter, sugar and lemon zest. Dorset Apple Cake is a recipe cooked on the basic Cake Oven. It can be made gourmet by adding Vanilla.