I must say that I am enjoying Simple September so far. Receiving lots of courgettes, runner beans and apples from my parent’s garden has helped; although it does take rather a lot of imagination not to quickly get bored of courgette!
Some of you will know that I use the same basic sponge recipe for many of the cakes I make – Delia’s ‘all-in-one-sponge’ recipe. I find it incredibly versatile; sometimes I add lemon zest and then add a lemon-drizzle topping, other times I add chocolate followed by coffee icing… the possibilities are endless. Yum.
Ingredients
- 4oz self raising flour
- 4oz golden caster sugar
- 4oz margarine
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- two eating apples
- two tablespoons demerara sugar
Method
Preheat the oven to 180oC.
Quarter the apples, remove the core and then cut into thin slices. Place the apple slices in the base of a round cake tin lined with greaseproof paper and sprinkle them with demerara sugar. You could also add a little sprinkle of mixed spice at this stage if you so wish.
Put the remaining ingredients into a bowl and combine well with an electric whisk. Cover the apples with the mixture and bake in the centre of the oven for approximately 25 minutes. You will recognise when it is cooked because the mixture will have shrunk away from the edges of the cake tin.
Turn the cake onto a cooling rack. When cold put the cake upside down onto a plate, so that the apple is at the top.
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I usually use chick pea water (or other canned pulse liquid!) instead of eggs 🙂
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thanks. what volume do you use to be equivalent to one egg?
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It’s 3 tablespoons per egg 🙂
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Baking powder is used as substitute for raising agent for vegan and chia seeds as coagulant.
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Glad you like it!
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The recipe seems delicious but can we replace eggs with some vegan.
Thank you for sharing recipe…
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What do suggest as a substitute? Do you have a good vegan sponge cake recipe which I could adapt?
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Can Bananas work as a substitute for eggs? what do you think?
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Worth a try!
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Did you give it a go with banana? I’d like to know how you got on.
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Yes it was good.
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Fantastic!
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