Apple And Pine Nut Cake

10 ingredients
4 steps

Ingredients

  • 150 g plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 110 g caster sugar
  • 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • 125 g unsalted butter, melted
  • 4 None medium unpeeled golden delicious apples, cored, thinly sliced
  • 120 g pine nuts
  • 1 None lemon, grated rind
  • None None icing sugar, to dust
  • None None mascarpone, to serve

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 180°C./ 160°C. fan. Gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 20cm springform pan and dust with flour.
  2. 2
    Sift flour and baking powder together into a bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in centre and add eggs and melted butter. Stir, gradually incorporating flour, to make a thick batter.
  3. 3
    Fold in 1/4 of the sliced apple, and 1/2 of the pine nuts and lemon rind. Spoon into prepared pan. Arrange remaining sliced apple on top of cake and sprinkle with remaining pine nuts. Bake for 1 hour 5 minutes, covering with brown paper bag or foil if cake is browning too much, until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
  4. 4
    Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a serving platter to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar and serve with mascarpone.

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