Spiced Apple Crumble Cake

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Grease and line a cake tin.
2. Prepare the crumble topping by adding all the ingredients to a bowl and rubbing the cold butter into the dry ingredients with your fingers until the texture is crumbly. Set aside.
3. Prepare the apple: peel and cut into 1 cm cubes.
4. Mix all the dry ingredients for the cake in another bowl.
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well.
6. Add the cubed apple to the batter and mix it in as evenly as possible. The apple to batter ratio will seem too high, but trust the process.
7. Pour the batter into the cake tin and top with the crumble.
8. Bake for 35-40 min until the cake looks set and the crumble starts looking crunchy. This cake is better slightly underbaked than overbaked, so don’t worry about getting it perfect.
9. Allow to cool slightly before removing from the tin.
10. Serve as is or with custard, ice cream or yoghurt.