Country-Style Apple Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

185 g unsalted butter
185 g caster sugar
2 large eggs
250 g self raising flour
150 ml milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 large granny smith apple
1/2 lemon, juice of
icing sugar, to sift

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Grease and line a 20cm spring-form tin and sprinkle with flour to coat.
In a mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar until creamy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Sift in the flour and fold in lightly using a large metal spoon.
Mix the milk with the vanilla and stir into the cake mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the tin and level the top.
Peel, core and slice the apple and brush with lemon juice.
Arrange slices on the surface pressing down gently.
Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake.
Cool the cake in the tin for about 10 minutes, before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Dust the cake with icing sugar and serve.