Suitable for vegetarians
Prepare yourself for grateful oohs and aahs when you bring out this luscious cake
Serves 10
Preparation time 25 minutes
Cooking time 25 minutes
Plus cooling time
Ingredients
- 50g Asda hazelnuts
- 175g self-raising flour
- 1tsp Asda ground cinnamon
- 175g butter
- 175g caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 4 Cox’s apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1tbsp lemon juice
- 2tbsp Asda clear honey
- 142ml carton Asda double cream
- 1tbsp icing sugar
Method
1 Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Bake nuts for 10 minutes or until golden, rub off the skins with kitchen towel, then finely chop in a processor or blender. Grease two 20cm sandwich cake tins and line with baking paper.
2 Sift the flour and cinnamon together. Set aside. Beat the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add one egg, beat well; beat in the last two, one at a time, adding a tablespoon of flour with each. Stir in rest of flour and nuts with 1 tablespoon water. Divide between tins, level tops and bake for 25 minutes, until the sponge springs back when lightly pressed. Turn onto wire racks and leave to cool.
3 Gently cook the apples in a covered pan with the lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of water, until tender. Add honey, purée in a blender or processor and leave to cool. Lightly whip cream, spread one cake with it and then the purée. Top with the other cake, then dust with icing sugar.