Apple and Carrot Cake

Our carrot cake is a firm favourite with tea room customers but if you'd like to try something a little different we're sharing a customer recipe for carrot and apple cake today: 

INGREDIENTS

250g butter divided into 2 portions of 125g each
250g caster sugar divided into 2 portions of 125g each
4 large eggs
100g plain flour
125g ground almonds
50ml milk
1 medium apple sliced
200g thinly sliced and diced carrot, the carrot slices should be much smaller than the apple slices.
1 tbsp cinnamon

METHOD

Preheat oven 180C / 350F / Gas mark 4

Line and grease a 8 inch cake tin

Melt 125g of butter and leave to stand 

Cream 125g of butter with 125g of butter, beat in 2 eggs into the creamed mixture then fold in the flour and add the milk. This mixture then goes into the prepared cake tin.

Next sprinkle the ground almonds evenly over the cake mixture then place the sliced apples and carrots on top of this mixture, making sure to keep them away from the edges.

Take the melted butter and beat in 125g of sugar, the 2 remaining eggs and the cinnamon. Pour this over your cake mixture.

Bake for approximately 1 hour, checking that it's fully cooked before removing from the oven. 

This cake should be left to cool before removing from the tin.

For an extra treat it's delicious served with  creme fraiche.