Apple & Walnut Cake

I searched for new cake recipes and found this one. It sounded really delicious and fresh with the apples. So I gave it a try and it really is great.

I decorated it with Kit Kats and Smarties as my little kiddo had his christening and so it would look more like celebration.

Apple & Walnut Cake

Ingredients:

Dough:

300 g flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

140 g brown sugar

50 g confectioner´s sugar

250 ml rapeseed or sunflower oil

4 eggs

3 unpeeled apples, grated

100 g walnuts, roughly chopped

Icing:

100 g softened butter

50 g brown sugar

1 tablespoon treacle

200 g cream cheese

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 150°C.  Line two 20 cm cake tins. Put the flour, cinnamon and baking soda in a big bowl, stir in the sugars. Add the oil, eggs and apple and beat everything together. Fold in the walnuts  then divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 45 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean. Cool for a few minutes in the tin, then remove and cool completely on a wire rack.

For the icing beat all the ingredients together then chill until the mixture is thick but spreadable. Spread half of the icing on top of one cake, sandwich the other and spread the remaining icing on top.