Poké-cake

Too many pommes too many many pommes

We had a giant fruit bowl full of apples and after doing 'sliced-up-apples-with-maybe-some-yogurt' for dessert everyday for a week, I decided to make a slightly more appealing Gâteau aux pommes. Here's the recipe:

Apple Cake:

• Some apples, maybe around 6ish.
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of honey
• 250g butter
• 240g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 240g flour (self-raising or if you're using plain just add some baking powder)
• A glug of milk
• 3 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of ginger

Pre-heat oven to 180c. Start by stewing your apples. Peel them, chop them (keep them quite chunky though) and throw them in a pan over a very low heat with a splash of water, a teaspoon of cinnamon, a teaspoon of honey and a tablespoon of sugar. Leave them until they're all soft and stewed-looking. 

For the cake, cream the butter and the sugar until really fluffy. Add in the eggs, flour, cinnamon, ginger and milk and mix well. Tip half of the mixture into a large cake tin and then layer the stewed apples gently over the top so they thinly covers the whole of the mixture. I used the biggest pieces and only a little bit of the juice but experiment! Tip the rest of the mixture on top and smooth it carefully over the apples. Place pieces of a non-peeled, non-stewed apple on top then stick it in the oven for around 40/50 minutes. This cake is really good when it's still a little warm and gooey from the oven, délicieux!