Apple Crumble Cake

Whilst on holiday recently I did a lot of baking; most of the cakes I baked were very nice but quite standard "nothing special" cakes (e.g. carrot cake, chocolate brownie) but this apple crumble cake was a bit different and very delicious so thought I would blog it. I found the recipe on the Waitrose website (here) but changed the method as I couldn't be bothered to do some of the things it suggested and the cake was lovely anyway.

Ingredients:
2 sweet apples (any type will do; I used pink lady)
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
250g caster sugar
250g butter
275g plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
4 eggs

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C/350 degrees F/Gas Mark 4
Grease a 23cm round deep cake tin

1.  To make the crumble topping, add 50g each of butter and sugar and 75g of flour into a bowl. Add 1 tsp of cinnamon and rub together until the texture is like slightly wet breadcrumbs.

2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs and beat thoroughly to mix.

3. Add the flour and remaining 1/2 tsp of cinnamon and fold in.

4. Transfer to the cake tin. Core the apples and slice thinly, arranging on top of the cake.

5. Scatter the crumble mix on top and bake for 50-55 minutes until cooked; a skewer inserted in the middle should come out clean.