Dorset Apple Traybake Food

DORSET APPLE TRAYBAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a rectangular baking tin (approx 27 x 20cm) with baking parchment. Peel, core and thinly slice the apples, then squeeze over the lemon juice. Set aside.
• Put the butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder into a large bowl and mix well until smooth. Spread half the mixture into the prepared tin. Arrange half the apples over the top of the mixture, then repeat the layers. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar.
• Bake for 45-50 mins until golden and springy to the touch. Leave to cool for 10 mins, then turn out of the tin and remove the paper. Cut into bars or squares.

DORSET APPLE CAKE (TRAYBAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 and prepare your baking tin by greasing it generously and lining the bottom with some baking paper.
• Put the flour into the large bowl, add baking powder and cinnamon and give it all a mix with a whisk. Alternatively, feel free to sieve your dry ingredients into the bowl.
• Add softened butter.
• Rub butter into the flour with your fingers (you could use mixer or food processor if you wanted to) until the mix resembles wet sand.
• Add sugar and give it all a light mix. Set aside.
• Peel, core and thinly slice your apples and place them in a large bowl. Squeeze the juice of half lemon over them to prevent them from getting brown. Set aside.
• Add your lightly beaten eggs into the flour/sugar and mix them in gently.
• Start adding milk and mixing it in slowly bit by bit until it's all gone and you have thick, batter like mixture.
• Add most of your sliced apple to the cake batter, saving some slices to put on top. Mix them in only just and pour in the mixture into prepared cake tin.
• Smooth the surface of the cake mixture with spatula and arrange your remaining apple slices on top in any fashion you want.
• Sprinkle demerara sugar on top and bake in preheated oven for 50-55 min until nice and golden brown and the skewer inserted into centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Important! Once you take your cake out of the oven, let it cool in the tin for good 20 minutes before you take it out onto the rack to cool completely.
• Serve dusted with icing sugar or slightly warm with cream or ice cream. Enjoy!

DORSET APPLE CAKE -- FRESH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C. Line the bottom of an 8-inch (20-cm) x 3-inch tall springform pan with parchment paper and lightly oil the sides of the pan. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
• In a separate large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream together the butter and sugars until smooth and lighter in color, about 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla extract.
• Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and mix until just combined.
• Add two-thirds of the batter into the prepared pan, and using a spatula, spread the batter until it's even. Evenly layer on half of the apple pieces. Add in the remaining batter, and using a spatula, carefully spread the batter until it's even. Evenly layer on the remaining apples. Evenly sprinkle the demerara sugar over the apples. Place in the middle of the oven and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
• Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing the cake and transferring it to a cooling rack.
• Dust with powdered sugar once the cake has cooled.

TRADITIONAL ENGLISH APPLE TRAYBAKE - APPLE PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C/360°F or Gas mark 4.
• Grease & line a rectangular baking tray - approx 9" x 7" or 27 cms x 20 cms.
• Peel, core & thinly slice apples; squeeze the lemon juice over them to stop them discolouring and set them to one side.
• Place butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, flour & baking powder into a large roomy mixing bowl & mix well until smooth. You can use an electric hand whisk if it's easier.
• Spread half of the cake/pudding mixture into the prepared tin. Arrange half of the apples over the top of the mixture.
• Repeat the layer with the remaining half of cake/pudding mixture & apples - the apples should be arranged over the top of the cake/pudding mixture.
• Sprinkle over with the demerara sugar.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes until golden brown, well risen & springy to the touch.
• Leave to cool slightly for 10 minutes & then cut into squares or bars.
• Wait until the cake has completely cooled before removing the cake & the baking paper from the tin - store in an airtight tin or container.
• If you wish to serve this warm as a pudding, wait 5-10 minutes and then cut and serve with cream, custard or ice cream.
• It can also be microwaved too, for a future hot pudding!

DORSET APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Rub butter into flour.
• Stir in baking powder.
• In a separate bowl, stir sugar into the chopped apples and raisins.
• Add egg and milk and mix gently to a firm sticky dough, add sugared apple pieces & raisins and mix again.
• Scrape into greased or buttered 8x8inch cake pan. Wet hands and press mixture into pan.
• Bake for 30minutes at 330F, 165°C.

DORSET APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180oc/fan 160oc, gas4.
• Grease a deep 24cm (9") springform cake tin and line with parchment paper.
• Peel and core apples and cut into 1cm pieces and toss in lemon juice.
• In a bowl, beat sugar, butter and lemon zest until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth.
• Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and fold in with the ground almonds. stir in the apple pieces into the mixture.
• Spoon into the tin and level top, sprinkle with the demerara sugar.
• Bake for one hour. (skewer should come out clean).