Apple And Cinnamon Crumble Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter, plus
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 1/4 cups caster sugar
4 eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
3 large tart apples
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
topping
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon (I added some allspice and cloves as well)
1 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup butter

Preparation

preheat oven to 350.
grease a 10-inch round cake pan.
To make crumble topping:
mix the sugar, flour, cinnamon and coconut in a bowl, rub in butter with fingertips till mixture resembles bread crumbs. set aside.
put the butter and sugar in a bowl and cream with an electric mixer till light and fluffy.
beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, adding a little of the flour if mixture begins to curdle.
sift in half of remaining flour, mix well, then add in rest of flour and stir till smooth.
Peel and core the apples, then grate them coarsely. Place the grated apples in a bolw and sprinkle with cinnamon, and set aside.
spread half the cake mixture evenly over the base of the prepared pan.
spoon the apples on top and sprinkle over half the crumb topping.
spread the remaining cake mixture over the crumble and finally top with remaining crumble topping.
bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, covering cake with foil if it browns too quickly.
leave in pan for about 5 minutes before turning out onto wire rack. serve when cool.