To Israelis a ‘Granny Smith’ is a ‘Grand Smith’ so when Orit Schwartz told me to use ‘Grand’ apples I thought she meant big, and used big sweet eating apples. Ah, well, Lesson 1 learnt. It is important to use Grannys as they’re not as sweet as alternatives. This cake is plenty sweet enough as it is. Lesson 2: make sure your oil doesn’t have a strong flavour; the second time I made this cake my canola oil – normally not very strong – had obviously been sitting around a while, and, well, it just didn’t do it. But third time lucky and all that. Yum.
Orit's Hot Apple Cake
Ingredients
- 1 kg Granny Smith apples peeled & sliced finely
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup oil weak flavour like canola
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup raisins
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180º C
- Set the apple slices in the oiled 26 cm round tin
- Spread the cinnamon and sugar over apples.
- Mix the flour, sugar, oil, eggs and raisins.
- Spread the mixture on the apples.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 180º C until the cake is "gold" (light brown).
- Serve hot with ice-cream.