Country Women's Association Irish Apple Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 250 g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 125 g sugar
• 125 g butter
• 3 -4 cooking apples, peeled cored and roughly chopped
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/3 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c.
• 2 grease a 20cm round cake tin.
• 3 sift together the flour, baking powder and the sugar.
• 4 cut in the butter roughly with a knife (do not rub it in).
• 5 add the apples.
• 6 stir in the egg and milk to make a fairly stiff mixture. the batter will appear fairly lumpy.
• 7 pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
• 8 bake for about 1 hour.
• 9 serve hot with custard or ice-cream.
• 10 this cake can be cooked ahead and reheated in the microwave as needed.