Categories: cooking-and-recipes
Date: 04 October 2008 11:05:34
One of my colleagues is Jewish, and she made us traditional cakes for Rosh Hashanah. Being me, I stole the recipe. It is traditional for Jews to eat honey and apples at New Year.
Honey and Apples Cake
2.5 cups of flour (350g)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil (240ml) - not olive oil (I used grapeseed oil)
1.5 cups apples (green apples, peeled and cut into cubes)
1 cup sugar (200g)
1 cup honey (320g)
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1 pinch of cloves
1 cup (240ml) hot apple cider (I've just used apple juice that I warmed)
Heat up the oven to 170*c.
Stir-fry the apples in a little bit of butter, 2-3 tablespoons of sugar and 1/2 spoon cinnamon, until the apples are soft. Cool.
Mix the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda in large bowl. In a separate bowl blend the eggs, oil, sugar, honey, ginger and cloves. Add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture. Mix until there are no lumps. Gently add the hot cider (or apple juice) to the mixture, and stir in the softened apples.
Pour the mixture into a greased cake tin or into lined cup-cake trays (this makes enough for 24 cupcakes).
Bake at 170*c for 20-25 minutes for cup cakes or 35-40 minutes for a large cake.