Apple Cakes
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Makes 16 cakes
1 lb cooking apples
Brown sugar
8 oz plain flour
2 level teaspoons cream of tartar
1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Pinch of salt
4 oz margarine
4 oz caster sugar
1 egg
Caster sugar for dusting
- Grease 16 patty tins or use the ‘if you care’ baking cups (available in Growing with Grace’s shop)
- Peel and core the apples and cook them, with brown sugar to taste, over a low heat until they form a thick puree.
- Meanwhile, sift together the flour, cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
- Cut the margarine into small pieces and rub this into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Stir in the sugar and mix in the beaten egg to form a soft dough. Knead lightly on a floured surface and roll out 1/8 inch thick.
- Cut out 16 bases and 16 lids with a 2 ½ inch cutter. Lift the cake bases into the tins with a palette knife. Cover with a teaspoon of the apple puree and top with a lid.
- Sprinkle the tops with caster sugar.
- Bake just above the centre of the oven, pre-heated to 400°F (mark 6), for about 15 minutes.
- Leave to cool slightly in the tins, ease out with the palette knife and cool completely on a wire rack.
Serve with cream.