This is the cake from my story: The May Garden
I found this recipe in a beautiful book entitled, “Apple: Recipes from the Orchard”. My version is a little simpler and misses out the icing stage –– regular readers will know that I tend to avoid any sticky toppings as my bakes have to travel across fields and woodlands in an old shortbread tin. I have also added my own adjustments to help the fruit settle evenly throughout the cake. The original recipe is to “serve 8” however my family of seven dispute this 🙂
Ingredients:
150g ground almonds
250g golden caster sugar
185g self-raising flour
1 tablespoon plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 eggs, beaten
Grated zest 1/2 a lemon
1-2 drops rose water
200g unsalted butter, at room temperature (and a little extra for greasing the tin)
125g raspberries
2 Granny Smith apples, cored and diced into cubes
Equipment:
23cm springform cake tin
Baking parchment
Kitchen Mixer
Spatular
Scales
Sharp knife
Small bowl
Silverfoil
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 160ºC/320°F
- Grease and line the cake tin.
- Put the ground almonds, sugar, flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix well.
- Gradually add the eggs, whilst continuing to mix.
- Add the lemon zest and rose water.
- Fold in the butter.
- Gently coat the raspberries in the plain flour (this will help prevent them from sinking to the base of the cake)
- In the separate small bowl, incorporate the raspberries with the apple pieces very carefully. I found that if I did not do this, the fruit distribution would be uneven and half of the cake would be apple, half of the cake would be raspberry.
- Add the raspberry and apple mixture to the other ingredients and fold in with care, so that some of the raspberries remain whole.
- Pour the mixture into the lined tin and level with a spatula.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for approximately one hour. Towards the end, add foil to the top of the cake to prevent it from burning.
- When a skewer, inserted into the middle of the cake, comes out clean, remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool.
- After the cake has cooled, remove from the tin and serve.
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Raspberry and almonds are like the king and queen of hearts! 👑❤️👑
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Absolutely agree with you Gail 🥰 A perfect pairing 🌿
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Mmm, delicious! It looks just as good here on your blog! The centigrade scale throws me off, we don’t use it much over here.
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My recipes are scribbled in a little notebook and only have Celsius but I just have pulled the original recipe off the shelf and have looked it up for you 😃 – my book says 320°F – I’ve added it to the post for all of you lovely Fahrenheit folks 🙂 🍰
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Thanks!! We still use the English scale, yay!
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I still understand inches, feet, pounds and ounces better than metric, despite the efforts of my school teachers 🙂
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Why has the UK taken that path instead of using the real measure system? Honestly, I never think of the UK as part of Europe.
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The powers that be wanted the whole of the EU to use the same weights and measures throughout. I wonder if anything will revert back after Brexit?
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Brexit is still ongoing? I forgot about it! So much political BS, Honestly, I wish the UK had never joined regardless of my being American. I still feel a connection to England.
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It’s meant to be over by the start of next year … I think we’re all in the inertia stage now 😴 It’s lovely that you feel a connection to England, there is so much tradition, culture, history and a language for us to share 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🥰
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I hope it’s over, and the the UK will come away in fine shape after. We are so much alike in my view as many Americans including myself, have a genetic link back to our mother country. If I could travel out of this country to anyplace, I’d choose the United Kingdom right away! I have at least four online friends there I’d love to meet, and see as much as I could. ❤️🇬🇧❤️
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If you do make it here John, please do let us know! 😃 We would love to see you!
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Apples and berries and almonds – definitely my kind of cake! 🙂
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It is a really good combination 😀
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Sounds so delicious! Also my favorite flavors!
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Thank you! I wish we could hand you a slice. I was just thinking about you – I hope you are progressing on the road to recovery xx
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This is gorgeous!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Looks so good!
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Thanks Laurie! 🙂
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This sounds great – and I’d love to see inside that recipe book…
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I wish I could lend it to you! I’m working my way through it, so plenty of the recipes should make it onto the site, with luck 🙂
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I’ll definitely be trying out that cake – and will keep my eye opened for other recipes on the site.
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Looks light and delicious
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Thanks Sheree … it is a very fluffy cake 🙂
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Marvellous texture. Wise family 🙂
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We never agree with the stated portion sizes … not with a teenager in the house 🙂
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Quite
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Yum! Don’t know about a family of 7, I could eat that by myself!
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This is another one of my recipes where I have no idea how long it might last for, because it didn’t even get to cool before it had vanished 🙂
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This looks delicious and just the thing for those overripe raspberries… I picked a good breakfast bowl full of them this morning, and a great idea of the over-spill and those apples that have been left much too long in our fruit bowl.. 🙂
Many thanks Mrs TP for this lovely recipe…. I have ear-marked this page to my recipe section… And will let you know if I bake it.. 🙂
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Thanks Sue 🙂 Sounds like your allotment is doing very well! I hope you get to try the recipe, it is really delicious – and yes, please do let me know xxx
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I surely will 😀
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You’re cruel and heartless. I have apples, I have raspberries and I have almond… what am I meant to do now, for Pete’s sake? More cake!
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Yes, absolutely. It is the universe telling you to eat more cake 🙂
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Good old universe…
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I am waiting for the technology where I can reach into this blog post and grab a slice! That looks/sounds delicious!
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Haha! Right!? 😂
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I very much wish I could share it with you all 🙂 Hope you had a lovely weekend Tierney xxx
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Beautiful dessert! Thank you sir sharing!
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Thank you! 🙂 x
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Looks like splendid cake, and with two sorts of fruit plus nuts it must be healthy! 🙂
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Yes! There’s at least two of your five a day buried amongst all of the fluffy cake sponge 😀
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🙂
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That looks delicious!
Dwight
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Thanks very much! 🙂
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Delicious!! Love the fruit combination 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Seven people. And a cake like this, for eight. My, with me and bros and sis years years ago, it sure gonna be chaos! 🙂
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🙂 Cakes never last very long at all in big families x
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What a beautiful Recipe, just my type of 🍰🤩
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Thank you! 💚🌿
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Reblogging this amazing Recipe as my 100th post 😍😍
Also Special because it’s my birthday 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Happy Birthday Shaheen! Have a wonderful day 🎈
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Thank you so much 🥰🥰
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Looks delish!! 😋
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Thank you! 🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing this very lovely recipe! Maybe I might give it a try someday
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Thank you very much – do let me know if you do, and if you make any changes or tweaks I can add them to the post x
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This looks so delicious, thank you for sharing your recipe with us.
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You’re very welcome – thank you so much 🙂
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everything in here looked so good i just kept liking all of your comments….thanks for posting this and bringing us so much joy…..
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Thank you so much Sophia, I’m really glad you enjoyed reading through our little site – thank you for visiting x 🙂
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it was my pleasure and i’m so glad to see your reply. can I also invite you to my youtube channel? I just started out and it will help to have encouragement from new connections like yours. Let me know and I will share the link.
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