Dorset Apple Cake. Edd Kimber creates a rustic bake with chunks of sweet apple and a crunchy demerara sugar topping. This Dorset Apple Cake has apples inside the cake and on top of the cake. And depending on the look you are going for, a Dorset Apple Cake can be baked in a round cake tin, made into a large tray.

But which apple variety is best and does a cheese topping work? This traditional Dorset apple cake is an easy recipe, with delicious results; the chunks of apple guarantee that it won't be dry. It's easy to make by hand, and there's no need for a mixer. You can have Dorset Apple Cake using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Dorset Apple Cake

1. It's 1 lb of apples (sour if possible).
2. Prepare 4 oz of sultanas.
3. It's 6 oz of butter/soft margarine.
4. Prepare 12 oz of self raising flour.
5. You need 1 tsp of ground ginger.
6. Prepare 6 oz of sugar.
7. Prepare 3 of eggs.

Mini Dorset apple cakes for little people. But the traditional recipe is for a large, plain looking fruit cake, not the usual sort of treat to appeal to young children. So I adapted the recipe to make it more child. This traditional British apple cake is fabulously moist with a slightly crisp topping.

Dorset Apple Cake step by step

1. Peel, core and grate apples.
2. Mix flour, ginger and butter / margarine together until it resembles crumbs.
3. Add sugar, apples and sultanas..
4. Beat the eggs and add to mixture..
5. Mix until well combined.
6. Grease and line a 2 lb loaf tin, pour mixture in, level top..
7. Bake at 180C for 1 hour, until a skewer / toothpick comes out clean..
8. Allow to cool in tin for 10 minutes then tip out on to wire rack to cool..
9. Serve. Can be served warm or cold.
10. You can substitute ground cinnamon for the ginger..
11. I use demerara sugar, but you can use white or golden..
12. Look out for my other post for 'Ades Dorset Apple cake '.

Place the apple pieces in a bowl with the lemon juice and toss well. Cream together the butter, sugar and lemon zest. Great Grandma's recipe for Dorset apple cake. This apple cake makes quite a nice pudding dish with custard. Apple cake is a popular dessert produced with the main ingredient of apples.