A new day, a new week, a new month and a new recipe......... Hope you all had a wonderful weekend....

You know how you end up with one or two apples at the bottom of the basket that somehow just get forgotten?  Well here is a great recipe to use up the little forgotten ones, simple and very enjoyable.  Easy peasy and as cheap as chips...

Simply called "Apple Cake".....

Ingredients:

175g Self-raising Flour
175g Soft Margarine
175g Caster Sugar
3 Large Eggs
1 1/2 medium size Apples, peeled and cubed
1 level teaspoon Cinnamon
Grated rind of 1 lemon (optional)
60g Sultanas
Icing Sugar to dust


Method:

1. Preheat your oven on 180ºC / 350ºF / Gas Mark 4 and grease either an 18cm square or a 20cm round tin.
2. Place the flour, margarine and sugar in a bowl.  Rub in the margarine to form fine breadcrumbs.
3. Add the eggs gradually and beat well.
4. Stir in the apple, cinnamon, lemon rind and sultanas.  Pour into greased tin.
5. Bake in the oven for 40 - 50 minutes until cake has risen and feels firm to the touch and a skewer comes out clean.
6. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.  Dust with icing just before serving. 

Tip

You can decide how big you want the apple pieces to be, I made mine on the small size but the choice is yours.  This cake can be enjoyed up to 3 days after baking; keeps well when covered in cling-wrap or in an airtight container and all I did was re-dust with some icing sugar.....