Easy Polish apple cake
Celebrate seasonal ingredients and bake this easy apple sponge cake. This Polish recipe uses soured cream for a moist sponge and a tot of rum
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- Serves: 10 persons
Ingredients
- 4apples
- 1lemon, juiced
- 440g caster sugar
- 4eggs
- 480g plain flour
- 7g baking powder
- 250g soured cream
- 50ml rum
- 20g butter, melted, plus extra for the tin
- 10g icing sugar
Instructions
Step 1
Peel, deseed and cut the apples into eighths. Pour the lemon juice over the apples and sprinkle with a little caster sugar so that they do not darken.Step 2
Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Beat the eggs with the remaining caster sugar in a mixer until you have a thick, pale, mousse-like mixture. Sift over the flour and baking powder, and fold it in followed by the soured cream, rum and butter.Step 3
Butter the inside of a 23cm springform tin and arrange the apples on the base. Spoon the batter on top and level it with a spatula. Put the cake in the oven and bake for 50 minutes-1 hour without opening the door. Cool the cake and then turn it out onto a plate, and sprinkle it with icing sugar to finish.