After foraging some blackberries, I decided to give apple and blackberry cake a go.

186g blackberries

2 x small gala apples

2 eggs beaten

1/2 tps cinnamon

4 oz butter

6 oz demerera sugar

8 oz self raising flour

orange zest

1tps baking powder

Oven at 160°c (fan assisted or 180 if not), line loaf tin with baking paper, or butter so the cake doesn’t stick.

Beat the eggs and greate the two apples including the skin down to the core into the egg, put in cinnamon and orange zest.

Cream together the butter and sugar.

Add the two together until you have a big bowl of runny, lumpy goo. Now add the flour and baking powder until you have a decent cake batter, then stir through most of the blackberries, careful not to break them up too much. Save a few for putting on top before it goes in the oven, and I sprinkled a small bit of demerera over the top as well.

Bake for around 50 mins to over an hour. I had to check a few times because it browned well early on. The knife test did it though, and it was perfect at about 1 hour and 5 minutes I think.

It was rather nice.

(c) K Wicks