Spiced toffee apple cake (Photo by: BBC Good Food)

Spiced toffee apple cake

This autumn, why not make this Bonfire Night-inspired cake? A great twist on traditional toffee apples, enjoy with a cuppa, or warm with cream and extra toffee sauce – yummy!

Prep: 30 mins
Cook: 45 mins
Makes 15 squares
Published: June 28, 2023 at 12:40 pm

Combining the comforting stodginess of a sticky toffee pudding with rich baked apples and spices, this toffee apple cake is fantastic on cold autumn nights. Cut it into squares to take with you on walks, enjoy at a bonfire display or as a lunchtime treat. Serve with toffee sauce, or vanilla ice cream, or even whipped cream!

This toffee apple cake recipe comes from BBC Good Food magazine, our sister title.

Looking for more apple recipes? Check out our spiced apple butter, crab apple jelly, peppered cider apple chutney and apple and blackberry crumble squares.

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Ingredients

  • 200g Dates, roughly chopped
  • 200ml Milk plus a splash
  • 250g Butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
  • 280g Self-raising flour
  • 200g Light soft brown sugar
  • ½tsp Baking powder
  • 4 Large eggs
  • 1tbsp Mixed spice
  • 2tsp Vanilla extract
  • 3 Small red apples
  • A squeeze of lemon juice
  • A handful of toffees
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Method

  • Step 1

    Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 20 x 30cm baking tray with baking parchment. Put the dates and milk in a small pan and bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat and set aside for 15 mins to cool.

  • Step 2

    Whizz the date mixture to a smooth purée in a food processor or blender, then scrape into a large mixing bowl. Tip in the butter, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, eggs, mixed spice and vanilla, and set aside while you prepare the apples.

  • Step 3

    Quarter and core the apples, then slice quite thinly, tossing in a little lemon juice as you go. Quickly beat together the cake ingredients with an electric whisk until smooth, then scrape into the baking tray. Arrange the apple slices, overlapping in rows, on top of the cake – you should be able to get 3 rows lengthways down the tray. Bake for 45-50 mins until a skewer poked into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the tray.

  • Step 4

    Put the toffees in a small pan with a good splash of milk and gently melt, stirring, until runny. To finish, dust with a little icing sugar, then drizzle sauce all over the cake. Cut into squares or slices to serve.

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