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Recipe

Alison Alexander's spiced apple tray cake

Prep time: 
30 minutes
Cook time: 
45 minutes
Skill level: 
Low
Apple and spice tray bake with caramel sauce, cream, and icing sugar.

This easy and comforting classic has cinnamon, cloves, and juicy apples packed into every bite.  (Supplied: Alison Alexander)

Alison Alexander is a Brisbane-based food consultant and the inaugural Queensland Food Fellow

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This simple apple cake, packed with cinnamon and cloves, is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

Drawing natural sweetness from apples, the cake is light, fluffy, and completely moreish. 

Serve by itself, or top with caramel sauce and a drizzle of fresh cream. 

Alison's recipe is the perfect winter dessert made for sharing. 

Alison Alexander's spiced apple tray cake

Prep time: 
30 minutes
Cook time: 
45 minutes
Skill level: 
Low

Ingredients

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 170ºC. Line a 23cm x 28cm tin with baking paper.

2. Place coffee in large saucepan and pour over the hot water and stir to combine. Add the butter, apples, sultanas and brown sugar and stir over low heat until butter melts. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool to just warm. Add lightly beaten add and mix well.

3. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a large mixing bowl. Pour in the liquid ingredients and stir to combine then pour into prepared tin. Bake for about 45 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer. Remove the cake from the oven and leave in the tin for 20 minutes before gently unmoulding onto a wire cake cooling rack. Dust cake with icing sugar before serving.

4. This cake is good served on its own or cut into slices and buttered or served with cream or ice cream and a caramel sauce.

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