- Prep Time: 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Serving: 8 - 10
Nutrition facts (per portion)
- Calories: 571
- Fat Content: 27g
- Saturated Fat Content: 16g
- Carbohydrate Content: 76g
- Sugar Content: 53g
- Fiber Content: 2g
- Protein Content: 7g
- Sodium Content: 0.8g
Eccles cake
Ingredients
- butter - 250g pack butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- brown-sugar - 250g soft light brown sugar
- vanilla-extract - 2 tsp vanilla extract
- egg - 4 large eggs
- plain-flour - 100g plain flour
- self-raising-flour - 250g self-raising flour
- buttermilk - 100g buttermilk
- apple - 2 eating apples, peeled, cored and diced to about 1cm pieces
- ground-cinnamon - 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- mixed-spice - 1 tsp mixed spice
- ground-cloves - 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- lemon - zest 1 lemon
- butter - 2 tbsp melted butter
- brown-sugar - 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar
- currant - 85g currant
- raisin - 85g raisin
- mixed-peel - 50g mixed peel
- icing-sugar - 85g icing sugar, sifted
- lemon - zest and juice 1 lemon
- sugar-cube - a few sugar cubes, roughly crushed
Instructions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a deep 20cm cake tin with baking parchment. Mix together the filling ingredients and set aside.
- Put butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whisk until pale. Beat in the eggs, then fold in the flours, buttermilk and apples. Spoon half the mixture into the tin. Scatter over filling, leaving a 2.5cm clear border all around the edge. Spoon remaining mixture on top, starting by dolloping round the edges, then moving into the middle. Bake for 1 hr 25 mins or until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
- Mix the icing sugar with enough lemon juice to make a runny-ish icing. Remove cake from the tin, drizzle over the icing, then scatter with crushed sugar cubes and lemon zest.
Retro cake recipe for 8 – 10 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract, egg, plain flour, self-raising flour, buttermilk, apple, ground cinnamon, mixed spice, ground cloves, lemon, butter, brown sugar, currant, raisin, mixed peel, icing sugar, lemon and sugar cube.
