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 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dorset Apple Cake

1. You need 450 g of cooking apples.
2. It's of Juice 1/2 lemon.
3. Prepare 225 g of stork margarine.
4. You need 280 g of caster sugar.
5. You need 4 of eggs.
6. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
7. You need 2 tsp of almond extract.
8. It's 350 g of self raising flour.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of coconut or brown sugar.

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 instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C and line a deep springform cake tin..
2. Peel and thinly slice the apples. Place them in a bowl with the lemon juice and a few tablespoons of water..
3. Add all of the cake ingredients (except the coconut sugar) into a mixer and blend until smooth. I warmed the marg slightly in the microwave so that it blended more smoothly..
4. Add just over half of your batter to the cake tin. Layer half of the apple slices over the batter..
5. Repeat by covering the apple slices with the rest of the batter, and top with the remaining apple..
6. Sprinkle the coconut sugar over the apples and bake in the oven for 70-80 mins, or until an inserted skewer comes out clean..

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.