Apple, Raspberry & Coconut Cake
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 150g butter
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 25 desiccated coconut + extra for sprinkling
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 200g eating apples, peeled and cored and thickly sliced
  • 12-15 raspberries approx
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan.
  2. Grease and line a deep 20cm loose-bottomed cake tin.
  3. Cream the butter and sugar together for about 5 minutes until pale and creamy
  4. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat for a few minutesAdd the flour, coconut and baking powder and mix well to combine
  5. Spread half of the cake batter into the prepared tin.
  6. Lay the apple slices on top of the cake batter in the tin, and scatter the raspberries over them
  7. Pour the rest of the cake batter over the fruit and carefully spread over to cover
  8. Sprinkle with some more desiccated coconut
  9. Bake in the oven for 1¼-1½ hours until golden and cooked all the way through
  10. Allow to cool before removing from the tin
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2016/05/apple-raspberry-coconut-cake.html