Apple and Calvados Cake

Cook Time 1 hour

Servings make 8-12 slices

Ingredients

100g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

50g brown sugar

A pinch of salt

3 large eggs

100ml milk

30g melted butter

30ml calvados

6 large apples (I like to mix Golden Delicious and Royal Gala)

1 cup of whipped cream

8 to 10 raspberries

Icing sugar, for dusting

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Prepare a well-buttered and sugared Kougelhopf (bundt) cake tin.

In a bowl mix flour with baking powder, sugar and salt. Mix in the 3 eggs, then the milk, melted butter and calvados.

Peel, halve and core the apples. Cut the apples into thin slices about 2 mm thick.

Place the apple slices in the prepared cake tin. Pour the cake mixture over the apple. Gently shake the tin and bake in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes.

Remove from the oven and let stand for 15 minutes before carefully turning out.

Pipe rosettes of whipped cream on top of the cake and decorate with raspberries Dust with icing sugar before serving. Serve with cream, custard or a raspberry coulis.