• 3 Irish cooking apples, peeled and cut in thick slices
Method:
Pre- heat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
Melt your butter in a saucepot over a medium heat.
Let it keep melted and begin to foam, you want the foam to rise up. Once it begins to change to a dark golden brown colour, this adds a beautiful nutty flavour, turn off the heat and allow to cool.
Toss the apples in a bowl with juice of half of lemon.
Line can 8-10” round tin with grease proof paper on the base. Butter it all heavily, scatter in your 100g of sugar. Shake it all around and pour the excess sugar onto the apples.
Sprinkle 1 tsp cardamom and ½ tsp cinnamon over the apple mixture and toss well.
Whisk your eggs a little with a fork and add your milk, squeeze of half a lemon and your cooled melted butter mix.
In a large bowl, sieve the flour and bread soda. Add in 150g of sugar, 1 tsp cardamom, ½ tsp cinnamon and a pinch of salt.
Mix the dry ingredients well and pour in your wet mixture.
Fold it all in gently until combined.
Pour your batter into the greased tin. Evenly spread the apple on top.
Bake in the oven for 35-40mins, depending on the size of your tin, you will see the edges are coming away from the tin and the top is golden brown.
Once out of the oven, remove from the tin while hot and serve with delicious with thick yoghurt/ice cream/Chantilly cream and a dusting of icing.
