When Waddlegoose offered to send me some of their cider to try, I immediately thought of baking with it. Coming in two delicious flavours, crisp apple and fruity berry, the first flavour seemed the perfect one to create a cake. The flavoursome new launch from Aspell, gave the cake a delicious flavour without being too over-powering. It's even better the next day served with a steaming hot cup of tea!
Taken from a Paul Hollywood recipe
Ingredients
100g unsalted butter
100g unrefined light muscovado sugar
2 free range eggs
225g plain white flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp of cinnamon
150ml of cider
For the glaze
Icing sugar
Cider
Method
1. Heat the oven to 160 degrees - adjust the temperature if you don't have a fan oven. Grease a cake pan and line with baking paper.
2. Beat the better and sugar together using an electric hand mixer. Once fluffy, beat in the two eggs.
3. In a separate bowl, shift the flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda together.
4. Using a metal spoon, fold in a third of the flour into the beaten mixture. Then half the cider. Fold in another third and then the rest of the cider. Finally fold in the final third of flour.
5. Transfer the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Cook for around 30 minutes. Keep an eye on it as mine was ready within 20 minutes.
6. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 20 minutes before taking it out and leaving it to cool full on a wire wrack.
7. Once cool, it's time to make the glaze. Mix icing sugar and cider together to create a thin glaze. How much you use is depending on your taste. Pour over the cake before leaving to dry.
8. Tuck in and enjoy!
As always please do tweet me if you try this cake at home. It's definitely one I'll be trying again!
I had no idea that cider could be used in a cake! This looks so good! x
ReplyDeleteThis looks incredible!
ReplyDeleteMaria xxx