Lazy Lady applecake

Press, 22 October 1980, Page 16

Lazy Lady applecake

Here’s a cake that is very quickly made, with or without a food processor. ■ The dough is . not dampened at all, so it is sprinkled into the tin rather than rolled out. Crust:

ij cups flour Jj cup sugar 50-75 g cold butter grated rind of 1 lemon Filling: 2 large apples 1 cup sultanas or currants cup chopped dried apricots or chopped walnuts 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon • Mix the flour .and sugar into a large bowl. Grate the butter into the mixture. (Use the larger quantity of butter for a richer dough, or the smaller quantity for a more economical dough.) Then grate the peel of a lemon into the mixture. Cut or rub the butter into smaller

pieces, using a pastry blender or your fingers. Sprinkle a little more than half, the mixture into a buttered or sprayed 2023 cm (8-9 in square or round cake tin. Put the remaining crumbly mixture on to a piece of greaseproof paper dr a plate, so you can use the same bowl to mix the filling. Grate the apples into the bowl without skinning them. Add the dried fruit and chopped apricots and walnuts (use wet kitchen scissors to chop the apricots.)

Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon over all this, mix with a fork, and drop the filling- in small blobs all over the crumbly mixture in the cake tin. Then flatten the fruit mixture and sprinkle the reserved topping evenly over it. (If you are very lazy you can grate one apple directly into the cake tin, sprinkle the dried fruit, sugar and cinnamon, over it then

grate on the other apple. This saves moving the topping from the bowl, but doesn’t mix the filling so well.) < The surface of the cake should be' fairly level when it is ready for the oven. Bake at 190 C (375 F for one hour, serve warm, with whipped, cream, for dessert, or cold as a slice. If you use a food processor, cut the cold butter into cubes and peel the lemon rind with a potato peeler. Process all the

crust ingredients using the' metal chopping blade. To make the filling chop the dampened apricots or dry walnuts with the same blade. Add the remaining ingredients, with the applesliced roughly, peel and all. Chop with the ; same . blade'until the mixture resembles mincemeat. Note: Use more apple if you want a thicker filling, but leave all the other ingredients unchanged.