Dutch apple tea cake

Over a decade ago, Priscilla Hon on a family trip to Tasmania, discovered this Dutch apple cake at a local café. The Hon family loved it so much, they ended up ordering the whole cake to finish off. The café owner kindly shared the recipe and the Hons have been fondly baking it ever since, who love the abundance of apples to cake ratio in the texture.

Credit: Jiwon Kim

• serves

  8

• prep

  20 minutes

• cook

  45 minutes

• difficulty

  Easy

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Ingredients

• 120 g unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ cups self-raising flour
• 1 cup caster sugar, plus extra to sprinkle
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra to sprinkle
• 4 ½ red apples, peeled, cut into 1 cm cubes
• ½ red apple, thinly sliced
• Double cream, to serve

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 200˚C. Grease and line the base of a 20 cm round cake tin with baking paper.
   
2. Allow the melted butter to cool slightly before combining in a large jug with the eggs. Whisk well to combine.
   
3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the egg and butter mixture, whisking to combine. Fold through the apple chunks (reserving the slices for the top).
   
4. Transfer the cake batter to the prepared tin and arrange the sliced apple on top, pressing lightly into the batter. Sprinkle with a little extra sugar and cinnamon, then bake for 45 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when tested.
   
5. Allow to cool before removing from the tin. Serve the Dutch apple tea cake with a dollop of double cream.

Photography by Jiwon Kim.

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Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.

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The High Tea

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episode • The Cook Up with Adam Liaw • 

cooking • 

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