Cider Cake

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Thought we'd have a change from chocolate cakes, so decided to make a traditional cider cake from Herefordshire. Doing a bit of research about cider cakes I found that this cake was baked for the annual Cider festival. Several other counties make cider, so I expect they have their own versions of the cake.Some friends brought us some local cider they'd bought there, so made use of some of it in this cake. It's a simple cake, easy to make. You could vary the spices to suit your taste, and I suppose that the type of cider you used would make a difference to the flavour.

 preheat oven 180C/gas4
grease a 20 or 21cm square cake tin and line the bottom.

Cream together 125g butter and 125g caster sugar till nice and fluffy. Add 2 beaten eggs and mix well. Sift 225g sr flour with 1 tspn bicarb, 1 tspn cinnamon and 1/2 tspn ginger. Fold some of the flour into the batter then add 200ml cider. Mix together well. Fold in rest of flour and spoon into tin. Bake for 35-40 mins till golden.
Cool in tin, turn out onto a wire rack and sprinkle with some caster sugar.





Lovely moist, light texture and a good cider/apple taste, with the spices adding an extra layer of flavour. The inside of the cake was speckled - maybe the reaction between the cider and the bicarb? Anyone a food scientist?!!





Comments

Phil in the Kitchen said…
That sounds lovely. Oddly enough I was thinking of making a cider cake myself a couple of weeks ago just because I hadn't eaten one for years. I couldn't find my recipe (which I think was from Devon) and just ran out of time as so often these days but I've no excuse now.
15/11/14 2:51 pm
julie said…
lovely cake, Eira! And interesting too. The Germans make red wine cake so why not with cider.

xx
15/11/14 10:31 pm
The Caked Crusader said…
I love a cider cake - love the sugary topping too. That is heaven in cake form for me!
16/11/14 10:38 pm
Maggie said…
I found your blog on The Cake Crusader website - lovely Hereford Cider Cake from a county very close to where I live. I used to live in the East Midlands in Melton Mowbray......
26/11/14 6:24 am
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