I was extremely inspired by John from the Bartolini kitchens when he recently baked and posted his Aunt Mary’s apple cake recipe. I had some apples and wanted to bake something sweet and appleee for a while now and this was the perfect recipe
I adapted it and left out the raisins as I’m not a raisin fan and replaced the walnuts with flaked almonds as a crispy topping. The main component of this dish was the caramel sauce but hands down to John! your caramel looks stunning. Mine came out a lighter colour, I was afraid that I would burn it on my first attempt. Next time I will caramelise it more!
This cake has no butter in it but oil, so I thought I could get away with having a little caramel sauce with it. In which I cut down the fat content by replacing cream with milk. The caramel came out well but I did make less on purpose and thought I could make more when needed…and I think we will be needing more soon!
INGREDIENTS
3 large apples cored and thinly sliced
3 eggs
400g plain flour
Pinch of salt
120g caster sugar
2 tsp baking powder
¾ cup sunflower oil
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp cinnamon powder
Toasted flaked almonds
METHOD
• Preheat oven to 180°c/350°f/gas mark 4. Line and grease a deep baking dish
• Mix all the ingredients together except for the apple, beat and combine well. Batter will be stiff
• Fold in the apples and pour out the batter into the baking dish. Liberally scatter the flaked almonds on top and bake for 35-45 minutes until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean when inserted
• Slice into squares and leave to cool in the dish
Meanwhile to make the light caramel sauce
You will need ~
50g light brown sugar
150g butter
40g caster sugar
60 ml milk
• Melt the sugar and butter on a low heat, wait for the sugar to dissolve
• Then pour in the milk, still on a low heat, stirring continuously until the sauce starts to thicken and bubble
Take off the heat, ready for the cake!
Drench the cake in this sweet sweet sauce and devour warm! Enjoy D x
Shivaay Delights 
Looks delicious!
Thank you so much! 🙂
Dimple, your caramel sauce looks perfect – just to the right temperature and color. Job well done! Love your photos, too. Isn’t neat how one blogger inspires the other? 🙂
Thank you Shanna! I’m definitely being inspired and am learning so much from everyone! Just loving this culinary journey 🙂
Well, I can see that! 🙂 You are definitely inspiring me to try new things and challenge myself. Nice work!
Great looking sauce!
Thank you 🙂
Yum! Your cake looks delicious! I’m usually not a big raisin fan either. Would love to have a slice of this right now!
Thank you Ada! 🙂
This looks great!! I LOVE caramel!
Thanks Lauren! Me too 😉
Nice photo tutorial, Dimple! I love caramel sauce and you have done a great job first time. 😀
Thank you Fae! I think next time I might use a little cream 😉
Your first caramel sauce looks great. I am not fan of a caramel that much but when I’ll try to make a sauce, I will try yours. 😉
That’s really sweet of you, thank you 🙂
The cake and the sauce look great 👍
Thank you friend! X
i’ve got loads of apples at the moment, must try this!
Thanks Melissa! Hope you enjoy it! Especially the sauce mmmmm 🙂
Your first caramel sauce looks divine Dimple!
Thank you so much Lydia! X
Your caramel sauce looks so good!
Still got some in a glass jar hidden away from everyone in the fridge lol 😉
Thank you, too, for your kind words, Dimple. I am so glad you tired and enjoyed both the cake and caramel sauce. Aunt Mary’s cake is good as it is but that caramel sauce really does take it to another level — and I think yours is fine just the way it is. 🙂
Thank you very much John! And to you and Aunt Mary for the inspiration. The caramel sauce was a great addition to the cake and we all thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks again! Hope you had a good journey!
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Hw much butter u hv used in caramel sauce
150g butter