Kentish Apple Cake

    Please help yourself to a generous slice!

    It's been a fraught day on the domestic front (a flooding washing machine - very long story ...),

but once everything was back to rights, a piece of this with some good cheese restored the spirits.

    The recipe is from Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook and is similar to this one but uses butter instead of sunflower oil and has you soak the sultanas in water (or whisky or sherry, say) for an hour before mixing. One to make again - preferably in 'drier conditions'.

Comments

[Helen]

Now Karen, you must stop teasing us with all these foody temptations.
I wonder if you were a chef in your past life?
Given the wonderful sounding food you've been cooking from "River Cottage", I think I may treat myself to the same book.
I hope it is "easy food" as it promises!

[Anne B-A]

I see that Sarah Raven uses cooking apples in this recipe. Did you? Or did you use ordinary eating apples? I know water content can have a big impact on baking. May just have to live dangerously and give it a go with eating apples. I really fancy an apple cake today! Thanks for the push!

[Cornflower]

I used three cooking apples, Anne, but I'm sure eaters would be fine, too. (I'm having a piece as I write!).

[Cornflower]

Very straightforward, Helen.

[Darlene]

I can't think of anything nicer to calm someone dealing with a bit of a flood. Nice touch with the crunchy sugar!

[B R Wombat]

That looks sooooo good.