Cinnamon and apple cake

Got some green apples which look at little too old to eat? The rest of the ingredients for this cake should be in your fridge or pantry.

The smell of apple and cinnamon in the oven is absolutely amazing and this cake is very soft and crumbly and yummy! Note this recipe only makes a small cake, but I think its enough, the cake itself is not terrible rich but the apples combined with cinnamon and butter make a rich topping. 

Cake
2 cups self-raising flour
4 tbs Castor sugar
6 tbs softened butter
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2/3 cup milk

Topping
200g green apples, peeled, cored and sliced thinly
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp cornflour
1 1/2 tbs butter, melted

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease a 23 cm round spring form tin and line with baking paper.

Sift the flour and sugar into a mixing bowl. Add the butter and cut into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Stir in the egg and milk and beat to a smooth batter. Be careful as this is quite a thick batter! Spread over the base of the prepared tin.

Combine the apple, cinnamon, and cornflour in a bowl coating the apple evenly. Arrange on top of the cake batter. Drizzle the melted butter on top of the apples.

Bake for 55 min or until cooked through. Cool on a wire rack and remove tin when cold.