Apple And Pine Nut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

150 g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
110 g caster sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
125 g unsalted butter, melted
4 None medium unpeeled golden delicious apples, cored, thinly sliced
120 g pine nuts
1 None lemon, grated rind
None None icing sugar, to dust
None None mascarpone, to serve

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180\u00b0C./ 160\u00b0C. fan. Gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 20cm springform pan and dust with flour.
Sift flour and baking powder together into a bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in centre and add eggs and melted butter. Stir, gradually incorporating flour, to make a thick batter.
Fold in 1/4 of the sliced apple, and 1/2 of the pine nuts and lemon rind. Spoon into prepared pan. Arrange remaining sliced apple on top of cake and sprinkle with remaining pine nuts. Bake for 1 hour 5 minutes, covering with brown paper bag or foil if cake is browning too much, until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a serving platter to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar and serve with mascarpone.