Ingredients
- 2 cups peeled and diced apples
- 1 cup pitted and diced plums
- 1 cup pitted dates, halved
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¾ cup boiling water
- 125g butter, soft
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 free range egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ tsp salt
- Topping
- 50g butter
- ½ cup soft brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 1 cup thread coconut
- 1 Tbsp golden syrup
Vendors
Apple, Plum and Date Cake
Method
- Preheat oven to 180C Combine apples, plums, dates, baking soda and boiling water
- Leave to cool
- Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl until creamy, then add egg and vanilla
- Sift flour and salt and add alternately with apple mixture to the creamed butter mix
- Pour batter into a greased 23cm loose-bottom cake tin
- Bake for 35-40 mins
- Combine the topping ingredients and melt together
- Remove cake from oven and add topping
- Bake for another 10mins until topping is golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean
Comments
Thanks to Willowbrook Orchard - Plums, and Ettrick Gardens Peasgood Nonsuch apples, for providing the ingredients used in the demonstration.
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