Easy soft apple and cream cake recipe
Apple cake today! Yay!
Apple cake has always been one of my favourites: it is healthy, always satisfying.. it makes me think of granny. One of those cakes you can dunk in your tea or coffee. Simply the best!
I love trying different combinations and variations of apple cakes. This one has fresh cream added to it and orange zest but it is not too rich as it has no oil or butter.
It is soft, delicate and really yummy. The combination of apples and cream goes beautifully together and a touch of orange zest and cinnamon will give it a lift making it more interesting. You can serve it with a little jam or whipped cream if you wish.
- Prep Time : 25 minutes
- Cook Time : 40 minutes
Ingredients
- apples - 3
- self raising flour - 270 g - 2 + 3/4 cup
- eggs - 3
- sugar - 150 g - 2/3 cup
- fresh cream - 200 ml - 7 fluid oz
- orange zest
- lemon juice - of 1 lemon
- cinnamon or ground spice mix - 1 tsp
- brown sugar - for sprinkling
Instructions
Peel and slice the apples into thin slices and squeeze over them the lemon juice; mix well.
Whip the eggs with the sugar until pale and creamy
Add the cream, the cinnamon and the orange zest.
Sift the flour onto the mixture, mix well and pour it onto a well greased round baking tin measuring approx 22 cm or 8 inch. Lay the apples on top and sprinkle with brown sugar.
Cook at 180C or 350F for 35 to 40 minutes. Check with a toothpick, if the cake still appears wet inside leave it in for a further 8 to 10 minutes.
This cake needs to be served with a good cup of tea or coffee.
So here it comes this pretty set of white porcelain espresso cups beautifully decorated with blue tit motifs together with saucers to liven up your coffee morning! They are so cute, they make me crave for spring even if there is no chance yet.. still a little while to wait before then..!
Dotcomgiftshop is offering this set of 4 blue tit espresso cups and saucers worth £24.95 to a lucky "My Little Italian Kitchen" reader. I love their kitchen range especially their vintage cups and saucers.
For a chance to win it enter the gleam form below.
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Win a set of 4 espresso cups and saucers
WINNER: Cheryl G.
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Caffe mocha
Decaf coffee
The cake looks amazeing and yummy.what a sweet giveaway prize.
A skinny latte!
Coffee
green tea
Hot chocolate
Hot Chocolate
I would love to join you for the afternoon tea! The cake looks marvelous, Alida.
Thanks Angie, it went ever so quickly!
HOT CHOCOLATE
Coffee. I’m a bit obsessed with it.
Hot Chocolate 🙂
Coffee, obviously!
soya latte
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Black coffee with a splash of hazelnut syrup.
Ho un debole per i dolci alle mele… golosissimo questo, brava Alida!!!!
Grazie cara!
My favourite hot drink is hot chocolate with cream and marshamllows!! A treat every now and again.
Green tea or hot chocolate
flavoured coffee
Dear Alida,
Fabulous apple cake..looks really yummy! I just printed out the recipe. Have to make this one..love apples with a cake…Great job! Have a glorious Friday and a good weekend…
Hugs, Dottie 🙂
Hope you enjoy the cake Dottie! Have a fab weekend too xx
Tea
hot chocolate cream and marshmellows x
Honestly, it’s tea. English breakfast with milk. It’s my go-to hug in a mug. I love good coffee today, but only one or two a day as a treat (unless it’s decaf)
French Vanilla Ground Coffee
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a great cafe latte
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At the moment, cocoa made with almond milk.
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mulled wine at xmas
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tea
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A nice cups tea 🙂
mocha loveely cake and lovely giveaway thankyou x
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Milky coffee.
Hot Chocolate
tea
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English breakfast tea.
Cappuccino!
A lovely latte!
COFFEE
Hot chocolate or a latte!
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Hot chocolate
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Hot Chocolate
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caramel latte
latte
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coffee
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Hot chocolate
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black coffee
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Oh a lovley frothy capuchino
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builders tea lol
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Green tea no milk
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an expresso in the morning or an Americano after about 11am
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spiced chai
Earl Grey
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Hot choc wih cream and marshmallows 😉
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Love a good strong cup of tea
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coffee
hot chocolate
herbal teas
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Cappuccino
Hot Chocolate
Strong coffee with a dash of double cream
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Earl Grey or Latte
Usually Tea, but I am very partial to a Mocha- (with extra chocolate!) especially when I’m having a tough day at work!
Hot chocolate with marshmallows
HOT CHOCOLATE
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White hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows!
Love a good cup of TEA!
Some lovely hot tomato soup!
A latte machiatto!
Herbal tea
Adoro le torte di mele, deliziosa la tua versione al profumo d’arancia! Buona domenica, ciao!
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Hot Chocolate
coffee with cream
good old plain coffee
Look deliziosi 🙂
Love capuccino cara1
xoxo
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Caramel latte
tea
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coffee 🙂
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A delicious Latte
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Hot chocolate with cream and marshmellows
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Hi Alida, I cannot participate in the giveaway since I live in the States, but my favorite hot drink is a hot latte’!
Your cake is beautiful and like you, I LOVE apple cakes, especially the way that Italians prepare them!
Happy New Year in 2016!
Baci!
Grazie Roz! Your recipe are deliziose! You are a real inspiration!
An espresso – simple but so so good!
COFFEE
Earl Grey Tea
Tea!
A latte! 🙂
Tea in the morning
Latte for me
hot chocolate!
This cakes looks beautiful! I LOVE apple cake too. My favourite hot drink is peppermint and licorice tea, soooo good!
Thank you Charlie!
Hazelnut latte…yum!
Camomile tea with honey
Coffee!
Latte
Coffee
A milky latté 🙂
I love a Hot Chocolate
Hot Chocolate!
Tea
Tea
Mocha!
An Americano with a hint of milk
Strong Tea – I can’t stand milky tea
Strong black coffee
Cappichino
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My favourite is a cappuccino
latte
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Green tea
Mocha
ginger tea
Love a latte
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tea
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Gingerbread latte
americano
Hot chocolate
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hot chocolate
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Caffe Latte
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Hot Chocolate
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cappuccino
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Green Tea!
hot chocolate
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tea is my favourite hot drink
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Hot chocolate.
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nothing beats a cup of tea!
hot chocolate x
I do love a cup steaming with multiple shots of espresso especially when I need a boost of getupandgo!
hot chocolate
black coffee
a nice cup of tea
Green Tea is my favourite hot drink
Skinny Vanilla Latte 😛
Tea
Decaff coffee all the way
Fresh coffee
It absolutely has to be a really good Italian blend expresso with sugar. It has to be made in the old style percolator on the hob. Perfect for serving with this beautiful cake,in those gorgeous Blue tit cups. Wonderful! Thanks for this competition. Daximama+Dog
I like plain hot milk
Hot Chocolate
LADY GREY TEA
A lovely cup of tea!
a white coffee – lovely and simple
Hot chocolate 🙂
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coffee for me please
Cappuccino, but never after 10am 😉
Skinny latte
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hot chocolate
Coffee
Latte Macchiato
1.5 Spoons of instant gold coffee with 3 spoons of hot chocolate and a generous helping of honey, thats my favourite! (oh, with milk and water of course)
Tea
Cappuccino with a sprinkle of chocolate x
coffee
Latte
Decaf green tea
Gingerbread latte with cream
White tea
mocha is my fave
Milk tea
Hot chocolate
Coffee, one sugar and plenty of milk
I enjoy a black coffee
Gave me a cup of Earl Grey milk tea, and that would be perfect.
I love coffee
Sometimes In a frappe
Or coffee with cream,
But the best for me
It’s got to be
Latte with swirl of cream.
It just depends on the time of day – cafe latte at coffee time and English tea at teatime
Its my cup of TEA to be honest i overdose on it i love it that much still its better than Alcahol
black coffee
Tea
TEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAA
Vanilla latte
Hot chocolate
Coffee!!
Hot chocolate
I love a hot chocolate with lots of yummy marshmallows on top! 🙂
A lovely cup of Yorkshire Tea 🙂
Cappuccino
hot chocolate
I love a strong white coffee, can’t function properly without one
My favourite hot drink is cappuccino. I can’t walk past my favourite coffee bar without buying one with a double shot of coffee and masses of chocolate sprinkles on top.
I am a Coffeeaholic heehee need to be with two kids who get up at 05.30 EVERY morning
Coffee x
Has to be a black coffee
Chocolate
Hot chocolate
Tea
You can’t beat a nice strong hot cup of tea!
A strong coffee
Tea
love hot chocolate
Irish Coffee!
Coffee
hot chocolate
Ooo gotta be a skinny cappuccino
Earl Grey tea
Milky coffee
Cafe Latte is my favourite
water and lemon xx
Strong coffee
Twinnings breakfast tea
Has to be Tea.
I like Green tea with a bit of honey
Latte or hot chocolate with marshmellows!
cant beat a proper strong cuppa anyday <3
Breakfast Tea
fruit tea
Breakfast Tea especially if I get a piece of this Apple and Cream cake with it
A mug of tea
coffee—hot -sweet and strong
hot chocolate
Coffee.
Tea
Earl Grey Tea
Hot chocolate
A milky hot chocolate
Hot Chocolate
hot chocolate
Cup of tea
Green Tea or hot chocolate
Coffee
Peppermint tea
Tea nice and strong no sugar 🙂
A nice cup of tea
Espresso
I am a cup of tea queen 🙂
Coffee
english breakfast tea
Green tea atm
Assam tea
Hot chocolate
My favourite is hot chocolate.
Latte
Cafe Latte
I love a cappuccino!
A love a good Latte
has to be a good hot chocolate! The only problem is you can’t eat cake with it, it’s rich enough in itself.
Tea
A good strong coffee 🙂
Tea
A Lovely Latte!
strong black tea
Peppermint tea , I love it!
A pot of proper coffee with a touch of milk and a cube of brown sugar
At the moment my favourite is a nice hot cup of English Breakfast tea without milk!
A milky cup of tea
Hot Chocolate with whipped cream and Marshmallows
Ooh, I have a few! I love mulled wine at Christmas but the rest of the year I like a vanilla latte or a good quality hot chocolate with a shot of hazelnut syrup. Yum!
The cake looks delicious by the way, I love apple cake.
Tea
A flat white (but only in the morning!)
Tea – Blue Lady or Pukka’s Three Mint.
decaf cappuccino
Black coffee
vimto
caramel latte
coffee, milk with 2 sugars
Tea
Hot chocolate with whipped cream, flakes and marshmallows – yummytastic
peppermint tea
tea
Tea
Espresso
a cuppa tea – or 5.
Coffee 🙂
hot chocolate, Bovril or espresso – depending on time of day & mood
Coffee,strong and black,no sugar.If it’s a comfort drink I may have a hot chocolate but I couldn’t do without my coffee x
Caffe Mocha
Caramel Macchiato
strong coffee
I love hot chocolate …… not sure if i entered as jen or jen moody lol
Caramel latte
a nice Latte
Hot Chocolate——( holidays remembered)
Medium strength English Breakfast Tea…
Black Coffee
Double choca mocha’s
Tea! but i love a peppermint hot chocolate at christmas
Mocha
Cappuccino
grounded fresh home made coffee beans
Hot chocolate
Strong coffee
Hot chocolate
Got to have my coffee hit first thing in the morning!
Espresso
Hot chocolate made with a melted bar of chocolate
a lovely cup of builders tea
caramel latte
Tea is my fav
A Cup of tea
Hot Chocolate is my fave hot drink
hot chocolate for me with cream and marshmallows
Black coffee
Cappucino
Hot Chocolate!
Caramel latte
latte
Love hot chocolate
White hot chocolate
Hot chocolate with Baileys 😉
Latte
Bovril
Hot chocolate is my favourite hot drink x
A decent cup of coffee
Tea
Mocha for me!
Hot chocolate!
Rooibos tea
Hot chocolate with marshmallows and cream
My favourite drink is honey, lemon and hot water
My favourite hot drink is fennel tea. Thank you, the cups are delightful – and I’ll be making that apple cake too!
Mocga
latte
Hot Chocolate
As I’m trying to lose weight my new best friend is green tea at the moment but I am partial to a nice freshly brewed coffee x
Tea.
Tea! 🙂
tea for me..
Coffee 🙂
I Like earl grey tea
Cappucino X x