Apple Ring Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 Eggs
• 7 Apples
• 1 tsp Salt
• 170 gms Raisins
• 420 gms Plain Flour
• 350 ml Vegetable Oil
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 450 gms Castor Sugar
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
• 115 gms Chopped Walnuts
• Icing Sugar, for dusting

Method:

1. Preheat a 350 degrees F/180 degrees C/Gas 4 oven. Grease a 9 in (23 cm) ring mould.
2. Quarter, peel, core and slice the apple into a bowl. Set aside.
3. With an electric mixer, heat the oil and sugar together until blended. Add the eggs and continue beating until the mixture is creamy.
4. Sift together the flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
5. Fold the flour mixture into the egg mixture with the vanilla. Stir in the apples, walnuts and raisins.
6. Pour into the tin and bake until the cake springs back when touched lightly, about 1¼ hours. Let stand 15 minutes, then unmould and transfer to a cooling rack. Dust with a layer of icing sugar before serving.