Apple & walnut cake with treacle icing
Saw this recipe on my favourite site BBC Goodfood Recipes looks great I must try it. This easy all-in-one cake is perfect if you've got friends coming for coffee or afternoon tea.
Ingredients
300g plain flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Ā½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
140g dark brown soft sugar
50g golden caster sugar
250ml rapeseed or sunflower oil
4 eggs
3 unpeeled apples, coarsely grated
100g walnuts, roughly chopped
For the icing
100g butter, softened
50g dark soft brown sugar
1 tbsp black treacle
200g tub full fat soft cheese
Method
Heat oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Line two 20cm cake tins.
Put the flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda in a big bowl, then stir in the sugars, making sure there are no lumps of sugar. Add the oil, eggs and apples, and beat everything together. Fold in the walnuts then divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 45 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow to cool for a few mins in the tin then remove and cool completely on a wire rack.
For the icing, beat all the ingredients together then chill until the mixture is thick but spreadable. Spread half the icing on top of one cake, sandwich with the other and spread the remaining icing on top