Spiced Apple & Walnut Loaf
I’m realising that most of my sweet baking recipes skew towards the puritanical. There’s no perceived virtue in this, just where my tastes naturally land. If you’re searching for decadent, chocolate over-the-topness, I suggest you look elsewhere.
Originally this recipe used apple sauce but that’s become harder to find. I’ve replaced it with a small tin of cooked apple for pie which supermarkets call ‘pie apple.’ It’s an odd size tin (385g) too. Of course, you could just cook your own apples and use those. If you want to do this, choose a firm apple that will hold its shape and lightly sweeten them.
If you want to cook these in smaller format, an 8-piece mini loaf tin will take approximately 20 minutes to cook through.
ingredients
- 60g butter
- 1 egg
- 250g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground mixed spice
- 200g brown sugar
- 385g tin pie apple, rough chopped
- 65g sultanas
- 50g chopped walnuts
method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and mixed spice. Add sultanas and walnuts and stir in well. Empty the tin of cooked apple into the mix.
Stir together the cooled, melted butter and egg until mostly combined and add to the rest of the ingredients. Stir the whole lot together until there are no patches of dry ingredients.
Pour batter into lined loaf tin and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick emerges clean when pierced into the middle of the cake.