Recipe from Anne

Almond and Apple Cake
Serves 8

Ingredients.

80g butter, at room temperature.

140g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
3 eggs
100g ground almonds
150g self-raising flour
80ml milk
2 small cooking apples, thinly sliced.

Method

Preheat the oven to 170C/Gas Mark 3.

Grease a 22cm cake tin with melted butter, and line base and sides with baking parchment.
Beat butter, caster sugar and vanilla in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Stir in ground almonds. Gradually stir in the flour and milk.
Arrange the apple slices, slightly overlapping, on the base of the cake tin, and cover with the cake mixture.
Bake for 3-35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
Set aside in the pan for 10 minutes to cool slightly before turning onto a serving plate.
Serve warm.