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500g/1lb eating apples (eaters keep their shape when cooked)

juice and finely grated zest of one unwaxed lemon

6 heaped tablespoons flour

1 heaped teaspoon of baking powder

pinch of salt

75g/2oz caster sugar

2 large eggs

60g/2oz melted butter

have a 20cm/8ins cake tin, bottom lined, ready

Peel, core and chop the apples and place in a bowl with the lemon juice and zest (to stop them going brown). 

Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, eggs and melted butter, then fold the apples and lemon juice/zest into the mix.

Empty into the cake tin and bake at 180C/350F/Gas mark 4 for 40 minutes or until golden brown.

When cooler, sprinkle with icing sugar...(optional)

Serve WARM with vanilla icecream as a yummy pudding 

OR cool on its own as a teatime treat!

PS You can make this cake with any fruit (blueberries are sensational) but as it's apple time of year, we've gone for apples!