Today’s recipe is my mother’s apple cake recipe.

Apple cake

Time taken: 1 hour

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

• Apple – 1 ½ , large
• Cinnamon – 2 large sticks
• Green food colouring – ½ tsp
• Lime – 1
• Vegetable margarine – ¼ cup
• Sugar – ¼ cup
• All-purpose flour – 1 cup
• Baking powder – 1 tsp
• Baking soda – ¼ tsp
• Rose essence or Apple essence – few drops

Method:

1. Peel the apples and chop them up. Place them in a sauce pan and add water so as to just cover the apple chunks.
2. Add some green food colouring and 2 large cinnamon sticks to the pan. Cook the apples over low heat until the water dries up.
3. After the apples have cooled sufficiently, remove the cinnamon sticks and transfer the cooked apples to a blender.
4. Grind the cooked apples to a puree. Add the juice of 1 lime to the apple puree and mix.
5. Whisk together the vegetable margarine and sugar. Add the blended apple and lime juice mix.
6. Sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda.
7. Gradually add the flour mix to the apple and margarine mix to make a smooth cake batter. Add a few drops of rose essence.
8. Transfer to a baking tray and bake the apple cake at 170⁰C/338⁰F for 30 mins.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.