Moist Apple Cake

Ingredients:

For Apple Puree
•Cooking Apples: 2
•Cinnamon Powder: to taste
•Water

For the Cake
•All Purpose Flour: 1.5 cups (175gm)
•Salt: 0.25 tsp
•Baking Soda/ Soda Bicarbonate : 0.5 tsp
•Baking Powder: 1 tsp
•Butter Softened : 0.5 cups (100gm)
•Caster Sugar/ Superfine Granulated Sugar : 1 cup (150gm)
•Eggs : 2
•Walnuts

Procedure:

•Make the apple puree ahead of time.

Peel, core and chop cooking apples, and cook gently with a little water (but no sugar), prodding them gently from time to time with a wooden spoon until they form a mush - it doesn't have to be totally smooth.Add a little Cinnamon Powder.


•Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Line and grease a cake pan or tin that is 18cm/7 in square.Dust it with All Purpose flour.


•Sift together 1.5 cup of plain/all-purpose flour, 0.25 tsp salt, 0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder.

•In a food processor, cream 0.5 cups softened butter with 1 cup caster sugar/superfine granulated sugar. Beat two eggs, and add to the mixture gradually,processing between each addition. Finally, add 1 cup apple puree/apple sauce and Walnuts and mix well.

•Add the flour mixture to the processor and blend all together. Pour cake batter into the prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes. Then lower the temperature to 160C/325F/gas mark 3, and cook for another 15-20 minutes until golden brown and firm to the touch.

•Allow to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from tin and finish cooling on a wire rack.