-CIDER SAUCE-
800 ml Cider
2 tb Light Muscovado Sugar
1 Cinnamon Stick
CHOCOLATE & APPLE CAKE
275 g Plain Flour
50 g Cocoa Powder
1/2 ts Baking Powder
1/2 ts Baking Soda
1/2 ts Salt
100 g Butter; (melted)
100 ml Buttermilk
225 g Caster Sugar
2 lg Eggs
75 g Milk Chocolate; (broken into
-pieces)
225 g Tart Apples; (peeled and
-sliced)
1 dr Vanilla Essence
1/2 ts Ground Cinnamon
Clotted Cream; (to serve)
1. Preheat the oven to 180?c / 350?f / Gas Mark 6.
Cider Sauce
2. Combine the cider, brown sugar and cinnamon stick in a large, heavy
based saucepan. Cook at a slow boil for about 1 hour or until reduced
to 8floz. Remove the cinnamon stick.
Cake
3. Grease a 12 x 9 inch tin. Sieve the flour, cocoa, baking powder,
baking soda and salt in to a large bowl.
4. In another bowl, whisk the butter, buttermilk and sugar until
smooth and gradually blend in the eggs and vanilla. Pour the liquid
mixture over the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly combined. Stir in
the chocolate and apples and spoon into the prepared tin. Bake for 45
minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
5. Place the cake on a rack, pierce the top in several places with a
toothpick and drizzle half the syrup over the top. Leave for at least
15 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
6. Cut into squares and serve with cold fresh clotted cream, then
drizzle over the remaining syrup.
Yields
4 servings