Cinnamon Apple Breakfast Loaf

I hereby declare this cake, a breakfast cake. Not because it's particularly high in nutritional value or low in sugar, but because it contains apples and who needs an excuse for cake! This lovely loaf is fluffy and moist, it tastes great warm straight from the oven but also perfect with a cup of tea (or whatever your breakfast tipple may be!). 
I love fruity bakes, especially if I can use seasonal fruit picked from our garden (I may be over exaggerating here - the extent of our fruit filled garden is three apple trees but I hope to have a supply of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and rhubarb in years to come!) if you have to buy your apples, cooking apples are best but it doesn't make a whole lot of difference if you use what ever is in your fruit bowl!

Ingredients:
2 Medium Sized Apples (Peel and chopped into small pieces)
2 Eggs
192g Plain Flour
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon 
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
73g Brown Sugar
134g Caster Sugar
115g Unsalted softened butter
120ml Milk 

How-to:

  1. Line your loaf tin (I use ready made loaf liners and cake release spray for the best results)and pre-heat your oven to 160 degrees celsius fan. 
  2. Beat your butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy. 
  3. Add your beaten eggs and continue to mix until fully combined. 
  4. Add your sieved flour and baking powder, half at a time so not to over mix. 
  5. Stir your vanilla extract into your milk and add to your batter, mix until combined and then pour half of your batter into your prepared tin. 
  6. Cover with half of your chopped apples. 
  7. Mix your cinnamon and brown sugar together in a bowl with a spoon, cover your apples and batter with half of your brown sugar mix. 
  8. Pour the remaining batter in to the pan, top with your remaining apples and sprinkle over the rest of your brown sugar mix. 
  9. Bake for at least 40 minutes and until your skewer comes out clean (if your cake starts to brown too quickly on top, but requires more cooking time - cover your tin with foil!).

Allow to cool before eating... if you can wait!


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