Cider Poached Apple Cake Recipe by Zola Nene

Cider Poached Apple Cake Recipe by Zola Nene

Zola Nene has got your Heritage Day dessert and drinks sorted… sip on the crisp flavour of Three Spades Cider while enjoying a slice, or two, of this spiced cake!

Cider Poached Apple Cake
Makes 1 cake

For the apples:

  • 2 bottles De Grendel Three Spades Cider
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 3 cloves
  • 2 cardamom pods
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 5-6 apples, halved, peeled and cored

For the sponge:

  • 120g butter, softened
  • 120g castor sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 175ml plain yoghurt
  • 160g cake flour
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
  • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

  1. In a pot, combine cider, cinnamon, vanilla, cloves, cardamom and sugar then stir until dissolved. Place onto medium heat then simmer for 10-15 minutes until apples are fork tender.
  2. Preheat oven to 180C.
  3. Drain the apples, reserve the poaching liquid, then layer them onto the base of a lined baking tin.
  4. Make sponge by creaming together the butter and sugar.
  5. Whisk in eggs, vanilla and yoghurt.
  6. Sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, cloves, baking powder and bicarb.
  7. Fold dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  8. Spoon mixture carefully onto the fruit, spread out evenly, then bake for 40-50 minutes or until the sponge is baked through.
  9. Allow to cool in the tin for before turning out.
  10. Slice and serve drizzled with the reserved poaching liquid.
  11. Enjoy paired with De Grendel Three Spades Cider.

 

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