Name: Toffee apple cake
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Serves 9
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 125g butter; 225g dark muscovado sugar; 2 eggs, beaten; 225g plain flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 200g cooking apples, peeled, cored and diced; 100g soft toffees, chopped into pieces; 100g butter, at room temperature; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 200g icing sugar; toffee or caramel sauce

Toffee apple cake with cream cheese icing sliced into 8 separate squares

125g butter
225g dark muscovado sugar
2 eggs
beaten
225g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
200g cooking apples
peeled, cored and diced
100g soft toffees
chopped into pieces

TOFFEE FROSTING

100g butter
at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g icing sugar
toffee or caramel sauce

Method

step 1
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Put the butter and muscovado sugar in a food processor and whizz for a couple of minutes, then blend in the eggs. Add the flour and baking powder and whizz until combined. Stir in the apple and toffee pieces.
step 2
Pour into a buttered, base-lined 20cm square tin and bake for 1 hour, or until risen and dark golden. Remove from the tin and cool. To make the frosting beat the butter, vanilla and icing sugar with 3 tbsp of the toffee sauce until smooth. Spread over the cake then drizzle over more sauce to finish.