Dorset Apple Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

225 g butter, softened
450 g baking apples (weight, peeled and cored, approx 3 large apples)
1 lemon (finely grated zest and juice)
225 g caster sugar
3 large eggs
225 g self-raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
25 g ground almonds
1 tablespoon demerara sugar

Preparation

Pre-heat the oven to 180oc/fan 160oc, gas4.
Grease a deep 24cm (9\") springform cake tin and line with parchment paper.
Peel and core apples and cut into 1cm pieces and toss in lemon juice.
In a bowl, beat sugar, butter and lemon zest until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth.
Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and fold in with the ground almonds. stir in the apple pieces into the mixture.
Spoon into the tin and level top, sprinkle with the demerara sugar.
Bake for one hour. (skewer should come out clean).