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Irish Apple Cake

Irish apple cake, minus a large slice, on board on kitchen counter. Teapot behind

Irish Apple Cake is an ideal recipe  to use up windfall apples.   Not that you can’t make it with perfect fruit.   It makes a wonderfully moist cake, spiced with cinnamon and has a crunchy top   It’s a great pudding cake when served slightly warm with cream/custard/icecream; though I confess I like it best as a plain slice with a cup of tea in the afternoon    It’s comforting and very “moreish”, and somehow makes me think of something your great-aunt would have served – an apron tied round her middle and bustling around making tea in her Brown Betty teapot (with a tea cosy of course!)

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Fruited Tea Loaf Cake

There is nothing better on a cold winter afternoon than snuggling down into the sofa with a big mug of tea and a slice of cake.   In particular this fruit cake preferably topped with a large slab of butter!!   Bliss.

My Scottish grandmother used to make this cake.  There is no creaming together of the butter and sugar, you just add them to the dried fruit in a saucepan and heat gently until the fruit plumps up in the buttery, brown sugary mixture and then add flour and eggs.  It is ridiculously easy.    Continue reading →

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