Add allspice, cloves and nutmeg to this apple cider cake for some autumnal heat. Bramley apples are added to the sponge combine, and it's topped with crunchy pecans

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:25 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:1 hr and 5 minutes
  • plus cooling
• Simple
• Serves 10 – 12

• Freezable

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Elements

• 125g unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for the tin
• 250ml apple cider
• 1 tsp floor allspice
• 1 tsp floor nutmeg
• 1 tsp floor cinnamon
• ½ tsp floor ginger
• massive pinch of floor cloves
• 250g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 150g golden caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 75ml Greek-style pure yogurt
• 250g Bramley apples, peeled, cored and chopped

For the icing and ornament

• 125g icing sugar, sifted
• 30g pecans, chopped

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Butter a 20cm spherical cake tin and line with baking parchment. Pour the cider right into a saucepan, carry to the boil and boil quickly for 10 minutes till diminished to about 100ml, or by about half. Cool. Mix the spices, reserving 1 tsp of the combination for the icing. Combine the remaining with the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt.

• STEP 2

  Warmth the oven to 180C/160C fan/fuel 4. Beat the butter and sugar collectively in a stand mixer or utilizing an electrical whisk till gentle and fluffy. Add the eggs, one after the other, beating nicely between every addition. Combine within the vanilla, yogurt and 75ml of the diminished cider. Lastly, fold within the flour combination and apples till no streaks of flour stay. Spoon into the ready tin and easy the floor. Bake for 55 mins-1 hr, or till a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clear. Go away to chill within the tin for 20 minutes, then switch to a wire rack to chill utterly. As soon as utterly cool, the cake may be wrapped and frozen for as much as three months. Defrost utterly earlier than icing and serving as under.

• STEP 3

  When the cake has cooled, whisk the remaining 25ml diminished cider with the icing sugar and reserved spice combine till easy, including a splash of water if wanted to make a thick, drizzly icing. Spoon this over the cake, letting it drip down the aspect. Sprinkle over the chopped pecans, in a hoop in the event you like, and go away the icing to set earlier than serving. Will maintain in an hermetic container in a cool place for up three days.