Apple Crumble Cake yumminess

This weather's our absolute favourite. Perfect cosy-at-home weather. We love dabbling in the kitchen too, so today was the perfect opportunity. We decided to go for a new invention of ours (as far as we know) - An apple crumble cake. We're not selfish, so since we can't quite share the actual cake with all of you, we'll give you our recipe - just keep it to yourselves!

Ingredients

250g unsalted butter at room temperature
50g unsalted butter - cold
150g granulated sugar
150g brown sugar
1.5tsp powdered cinnamon
1.5tsp mixed spice or allspice
1tsp powdered cloves
300g self-raising flour
1tsp baking powder
2 eggs
3tbsp (heaped) oats
3 red apples
1tbsp plain yoghurt
3tbsps milk
1tsp vanilla

Let's get to work!

Switch the oven on.

Peel and core the apples. Chop them into slices. Make sure they're not too thick yet not too thin. Put in a bowl and squeeze some lemon juice to avoid them going brown. Put aside.

To make the cake batter:
Mix 250g of butter, 125g granulated sugar and 125g brown sugar.

Add a tsp each of the cinnamon, mixed spice and powdered cloves; the eggs, milk, yoghurt and the vanilla to the mixture, and mix again.

Finally, sift 250g of the flour and the baking powder and mix with the rest of the mixture.

The crumble:
In a bowl, put 50g of flour, the oats, 1/2tsp of mixed spice, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 25g brown sugar, 25g granulated sugar and the cold butter (cut into small cubes). Now the best way to do this is to use your hands. Needless to say, wash your hands thoroughly before this step! Make sure the entire mixture is thoroughly mixed, especially the butter. Form a ball with the entire mixture to make sure everything is well mixed. Then crumble it back into the bowl.

Time to assemble!!

Butter a cake tin. (We used a 26cm round one.) Pour half of the cake batter into the tin. You'll find that the batter is rather thick, so you might need to help it spread using a spatula. Scatter half of the sliced apples on top of the batter. Next, Pour the second half of the batter and again, scatter the second half of the apples on top of the batter. Last but certainly not least, top the cake with the crumble. Set the oven at 180 degrees Celsius and bake the cake for 30 minutes. You might want to crank the heat up a little, to about 200 degrees mid way.

Keep an eye on it as ovens vary so you might either need to leave it longer or less.

It's yummy when still warm, as well as when cooled down. We like to serve it with a nice dollop of plain yoghurt. If you're looking for more decadence you might want to top it with a scoop of ice-cream, whipped cream or custard!

We hope you enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed it! :)

Then, just sit on your comfy couch, savour it and to complement the experience, shower it down with some nice tea ...while you catch up with our posts.

This one's mono-layered, so yours will be twice as high! :)