APPLE CAKE

Preheat your oven to 160 deg C . Grease a 20 cm springform pan . Cream together 185gm of butter / marg with 1 dsp of lemon rind with 2/3 rds of castor sugar, in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy . Beat in 3 lightly beaten eggs and stir in combined flours ( 1 cup of self raising flour and 1/2 cup of plain flour ) . Turn the batter into the prepared pan . Peel 2 apples , cut into quarters , remove cores , make lengthways cuts into the rounded sides of the apple quarters , slicing 3/4 of the way through . Arrange quarters , rounded side up , around the edge of the cake . Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes or until the cake is golden and a skewer inserted comes out clean . In a small bowl sprinkle 1 tsp of gelatine over 2 tbs of boiling water , dissolve and add 2 tbs of appricot jam . Spread half the mixture over top of the cake . Cool the cake in the pan , remove the cake from the pan and brush with remaining warmed jam mixture .. This is a show stopper .