Apple Crumble Cake
When you have lots of apples and have already made apple crumble, baked apple dumplings, apple crumble slice and apple jumble! what do you do? You create something new! Apple Crumble Cake! This is cake. There are spiced apples. and crumble. All. Rolled. Into. One! Perfect!
Your go-to Recipe
I have made this with straightforward ingredients which should be easy to find! Standard butter, flour, sugar, apples, milk and spices, with the addition of ground linseed (to make it vegan). I have used cooking apples, but eating apples work just as well and do tend to hold their shape better! Here’s the recipe:
A light sponge dotted with cinnamon apple chunks with a crumble topping.
- 2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds (linseeds) (or sub 2 eggs or equivalent)
- 6 tablespoons water (for flaxseed only)
- 110 g butter
- 120 g sugar
- 120 g plain flour
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-4 tablespoons milk
- 2 medium cooking apples (approx 220g when prepared)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon flour
- for the crumble topping
- 40 g flour
- 25 g butter
- 25 g sugar
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First mix the flaxseed with the water to make your flax egg (if using an alternative prepare as directed to make 2 eggs – or beat 2 eggs). Set aside.
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Cream the butter and the sugar in a large bowl.
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Add the flour, baking powder and salt and start to combine. Leave roughly mixed.
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Pour in your egg, add the vanilla and gently mix. Add the milk as required to make a firm but creamy batter.
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Peel, core and dice the apples. Sprinkle the cinnamon and flour over, then scoop up the apples with your fingertips and drop back down to ensure they are all dusted with both. Add the apples to the cake batter and fold through.
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Spoon the batter into a prepared tin (I used a round glass dish) and level out.
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Put the flour in a small dish and rub the butter in using your fingertips, add the sugar and mix until you have a mixture resembling breadcrumbs.
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Sprinkle the crumble topping evenly over your cake and bake at Gas Mark 4 (350f / 180c) for 50-60 minutes. The cake is ready when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean and the top is golden brown.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for 20 minutes. Run a knife around the outside of the cake to loosen then tip out and finish cooling (the right way up) on a wire rack. Slice and serve!
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Enjoy!
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How to serve your cake
If you can, I would try and wait for this to cool down to allow the flavours to develop and the cake to firm up a bit. Eat with your favourite cuppa and your feet up! You could add some ice-cream or custard on the side… or both! Or even if whipped cream is your thing, add that too! I would serve this as dessert, or afternoon tea and whilst you’re in the kitchen, you could make these decadent biscoff brownies too!
Is the cake easy to store?
This cake keeps best in the fridge and will be good for at least five days (if you can keep it for that long)! Whilst it can be frozen for up to 3 months (remember to wrap it well, label and date) it will be more pudding like when defrosted (best served warm). If you are eating this the same day, it is fine just to leave it out (covered) on the worktop!
Sharing
I love seeing your creations and interpretations of my recipes! Feel free to share and tag me @LifeDietHealth or using #LifeDietHealth on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook or Twitter. Talking of sharing, the website Hubbub has just created their Christmas recipe page and you can see my chocolate coconut snowball recipe!
I’m sharing this over at Angie’s Fiesta Friday this week… Angie is hosting the party herself this week so if you’ve a few hours spare over a weekend to help out one week that would be fabulous! Hopefully I will have more time to co-host again soon, but for now I will just have a look around and see what others are sharing!
Leave me a comment below and let me know what you think of this apple crumble cake! I would love to hear if you’re a fan of baked apple dishes and crumble on cake!
Speak soon
Laurena x