Mandy's Apple Cake

Mandy's Apple Cake

Many was a lady I worked with in Tasmania, she made me a yummy Apple cake  and then ever so kindly gave me this recipe as I liked it so much,

 I made this last night and it is very yummy, I had a bowl of  Cherry's left over from Christmas that needed to be used , so I cored them and cut up cooked with a splash of lemonade and when simmered down to sticky cherry's mixed in with my tin of Apples

          Base & Crumble                   

•   125g melted butter                                         
•   ½ cup sugar
•   1 teaspoon Vanilla
•   1 ½ cups S.R Flour
•   1 beaten egg

            Fruit Filling

• 1 tin Pie apples or 6 just stewed apples in quarters
• Optional - a sprinkling or fresh raspberries or blackberries on top of the apples.
• Or Cherrys :)

            Method

• Press ¾ into a round tin
• Add the fruit
• Mix ½ cup S.R Flour with remaining mixture and crumble on top
• Bake in a Moderate oven 35 – 40 minutes
•  Best made the day before and left covered when cool in the fridge, makes it nice and moist.
• Serve with cream or custard