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33 lines
923 B
Markdown
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# Apple Sauce Cake
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### Ingredients
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* 340g cooking apples
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* 115g butter, softened
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* 225g caster sugar
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* 225g plain flour
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* 1 teaspoon ground mixed spice
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* 1 teaspoon bicarbonade of soda
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* 170g dried apricots, chopped
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### Directions
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Heat oven to 180C, grease and line a 17cm cake tin.
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Wash but do not peel the apples, core them and cut into chunks. Put in a
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saucepan with a tablespoon of water, cover and cook over a low heat, stirring
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occasionally, until pulpy. Push through a sieve and set aside to cool.
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Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Add the cooled apple
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puree and all the other ingredients and mix well. Turn into the prepared tin.
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Bake in the cetnre of the over for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a skewer comes
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out clean. Ten minutes before the end of baking, sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of
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demerara sugar.
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### Metadata
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tags: Cakes and Biscuits
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author: Leith's Baking Bible
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