berries, cherries & apple cake
Makes 1 cake & serves 6-8 people
ingredients
- Muesli Crumble-
- 125g Dorset Cereals Luscious Berries & Cherries
- 25g unsalted butter
- Cake-
- 1 large apple peeled cored and sliced into wedges
- 175g unsalted butter softened
- 150g caster sugar and a little more for sprinkling
- 3 large free range eggs beaten
- 220g plain flour sieved
- 2 tsp baking powder sieved
- 140g pouring natural with a hint of strawberry yogurt
- 150g raspberries
- cherries or blackberries
- Equipment needed-
- Bowl or food processor
- Wooden spoon
- Sieve
- Shallow frying pan & 20cm round cake tin
method
- A lovely cake for afternoon tea a picnic or served warm for pudding
- Pre-heat oven to 170°c/gas mark 3
- Line and grease a 20cm round cake tin
- Start by making the muesli crumble
- Melt the butter then mix in the muesli
- Stir well and leave on one side to cool
- In a shallow frying pan take 25g of butter and 1 tbsp of caster sugar melt and add the apple wedges
- Cook until soft and caramelised
- Beat together in a bowl the remaining butter and sugar until pale light and fluffy
- Gradually add in the eggs and fold in the flour and baking powder
- Add the yogurt being carefully not to over-beat
- Mix till smooth
- Spoon enough cake mixture into the tin to cover the base then scatter a quarter of the muesli crumble and a third of the apple and berries
- Repeat twice more
- Finish with the remainder of the muesli crumble and sprinkle with caster sugar
- Bake for 1 hour 20 minutes or until well risen and golden
- Tip: to prevent the cake from burning place a piece of greaseproof paper over the top
- Cool on a wire rack
- Serve when still warm
- Cake will keep in an airtight tin for a week
- Try frozen berries - they work really well
- Delicious served warm with lashings of custard!
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