Adam Liaw’s French apple cake
This simple cake is my idea of elegance. As simple as it gets and as tasty as it can be.
Ingredients
25g butter, for greasing
2 eggs
150g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
125ml vegetable oil
150g plain flour
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
4 medium apples, peeled and cored, cut into 2cm pieces
2 tbsp demerara sugar
whipped cream, to serve
Method
Step 1
Heat oven to 170C fan-forced (190C conventional). Grease a 1.2-litre loaf tin with butter and line with baking paper. Reserve any leftover butter. In a bowl, lightly whisk together the eggs and sugar, then whisk in the vanilla extract and the oil. Gently whisk in the flour, salt and baking powder to form a batter.
Step 2
Stir the apples through the batter and pour into the tin. Dot the reserved butter on top and scatter with the demerara sugar. Bake for 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes and remove from tin. Serve warm or at room temperature with whipped cream.
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Adam Liaw is a cookbook author and food writer, co-host of Good Food Kitchen and former MasterChef winner.
