Irish Yogurts Clonakilty Apple Eve’s Pudding
This is such a simple and so flavoursome cake to enjoy, it reminds me of my childhood and the perfect seasonal cake. get many more recipes at www.irish-yogurts.ie
Ingredients
- 2 cooking apples peeled and sliced
- ½ lemon juice
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 125 g butter (25+100) at room temperature
- 125 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 125 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 Pinch cinnamon or cloves optional
- 4 tbsp Half fat crème fraiche Irish Yogurts Clonakilty
- 3 tbsp apple compote
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160C. line a cake tin with parchment paper on the base if desired or grease all the sides with butter. set aside until needed.
- In a bowl, Place the chopped apple with the lemon juice , brown sugar and 25 g butter and toss to combine. Transfer into the baking tin.
- Next, prepare the cake batter, in a second bowl, beat the rest of the butter 100g with the caster sugar until softened.
- Beat in the eggs. The mixture will look slightly split) then, add the cinnamon, flour and baking powder until a smooth batter is achieved.
- Stir in lastly the crème fraiche to bring extra texture and flavour to the cake.
- Spoon the cake batter over the apple using a spoon to ensure the mixture is smoothly covering the apple pieces.
- Transfer in the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes until the cake is fully cooked.
- Remove from the oven and set aside for 5 minutes to settle.
- Lastly, in a small bowl, combine the rest of the crème fraiche with 3 tbsp of apple compote. Cadd some honey if needed to balalnce the flavours.
- Serve the cake with the apple crème fraiche and enjoy immediately.