Gingerbread Apple Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

115 g butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup applesauce
1 1/2 cups self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
400 g pie apples
GLAZE
1 cup icing sugar
30 ml milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Preparation

preheat oven to 180 Celsius grease sides and line bottom of 24 cm springform tin.
using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar.
add vanilla, egg and applesauce.
with mixer on low, beat in dry ingredients.
spoon 3/4 mix into tin and place pie apple across the mix, not quite to the edges.
place the rest of the mix in blobs over the apple.
cook for approx 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
cool in tin for 10 minutes then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
glaze if desired.
GLAZE:
mix all together until smooth and spoon over cake.
allow to harden.