Orit’s Hot Apple Cake

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.