Apple and Walnut Cake

Apple and Walnut Cake
This deliciously sweet cake will be the perfect centrepiece when you have guests over! A simple recipe to wow the crowd, that takes just over an hour!
SERVES10-12
PREPS IN15-20 m
COOKS IN35-45 m
Ingredients
For cake
- 250g self-raising flour
- 250g butter
- 125g caster sugar
- 125g soft brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 1/2 eating apples
- 50g walnuts
- 1 lemon, zested
For decoration
- 2 1/2 eating apples
- 40g walnuts
- 1 tablespoon wine soaked raisins (optional)
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 250g icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons St Lawrence Gold maple syrup for icing
- 3 tablespoons St Lawrence Gold maple syrup for glazing the apples and walnuts
Method
- Pre heat your oven to 165°C.
- Line your bundt cake well with butter and caster sugar.
- Cream the butter and both sugars in a mixing bowl or an electric mixer and mix until pale and fluffy.
- Mix one egg at a time into the creamed sugar and butter mixture, scrape down the sides of the bowl after each egg has been mixed in.
- Sieve small amounts of flour into the mixture at a time, folding the flour and lemon zest into the mix with a wooden spoon or a spatula (being careful not to over mix).
- Pour the mixture into the bundt tin and spread evenly.
- Peel, core and chop your apples into 1cm chunks and roughly chop the walnuts.
- Coat the apples and walnuts in a little bit of flour to help the prevent from sinking.
- Bake in the oven for about 35-45 minutes, checking at about 35 minutes with a skewer, if it's clean it's cooked.
- Leave to cool in the tin overnight so it comes out of the tin easier.
To decorate
- Mix the icing sugar, St Lawrence Gold maple syrup and lemon juice to form a thick icing.
- Peel, chop and core the apples and cut them into segments, one apple will cut into 8 segments.
- Roughly chop the walnuts, keeping the pieces quite big.
- In a pan add the walnuts, apples and the St Lawrence Gold maple syrup, on a medium heat, cook until golden brown and sticky and the syrup will reduce.
- Pour the icing over the cake and let it drip down the sides of the sponge.
- Add your apples and walnuts then sprinkle over the wine soaked raisins.