Apple & Marmalade Cake Recipe made with Auntie Val’s English Breakfast Marmalade

Ingredients

• 250g wholemeal flour
• 1/2 tsp mixed spice
• 200g Peeled cooking apples
• 100g Sultanas or raisins
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 220g unsalted butter
• 210g light muscovado sugar
• 125g Auntie Val’s English Breakfast marmalade
• 4 eggs

Method

• 1. Preheat the oven to 160C/gas mark 4.
• 2. Beat the butter and muscovado sugar together until light and fluffy. Lightly beat the eggs with a fork. Sift together the flour, baking powder and spices. Core and roughly chop the apples into small pieces.
• 3. Mix together the chopped apples with the sultanas or raisins.
• 4. Stir in the Auntie Val’s English Breakfast marmalade.
• 5. Add the beaten eggs a little at a time to the creamed butter and sugar (use a spoonful of flour if the mixture starts to curdle. Fold in the rest of the flour.
• 6. Stir in the fruit and marmalade mixture. Put the mix into a 20cm round cake time with removable base and lined with greaseproof paper.
• 7. Sprinkle a fine layer of Demerara sugar over the top.
• 8. Bake for approximately 1 hour and 15 mins. Check the cake is cooked by in- serting a skewer into the centre-it should come out damp but clean without any mixture sticking to it.
• 9. Turn out onto a cooling rack.