DORSET APPLE CAKE

Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . Apart from 500gm of peeled , cored and finely chopped cooking apples , the rest of the ingredients are pantry staples . Grease a loaf pan with cooking spray and a light sprinkle of fine polenta . 225gm of self raising flour , 1 tsp of salt , 100gm of butter/ marg ,100gm of castor sugar , 2 lightly beaten eggs and finally 25gm of soft brown sugar . So let,s get started ,mix the self raising flour in a large bowl with the salt and using your hands rub in the room temperature butter/ marg till the mixture resembles breadcrumbs . Now mix in the finely chopped apples , castor sugar and the lightly beaten eggs . Pour the batter into the prepared pan . Level off the top of the batter and sprinkle with the soft brown sugar . Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean . Remove from the oven and allow to sit in the pan until the cake shrinks slightly before turning out . The Dorset apple cake can be served warm with cream or cold with a thick covering of butter.