From Julie Le Clerc's Little Cafe Cakes
This is another really quick and easy cake using basic pantry items. It's a great one to whip up in a hurry and is lovely served warm as a dessert, or cool. This recipe is for little individual cakes but I have also made it as a large cake. It doesn't make a huge cake though so for my last effort I doubled the cake recipe, but kept the single quantity of the streusel topping as it is plenty to cover the cake. The amount of cinnamon in the cake recipe seems a lot, but have faith!!
Cake recipe
60 g butter
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar, tightly packed
1 apple, grated (ok to leave the skin on)
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup plain flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
Preheat oven to 175 deg C. Grease and flour 10 individual cake or muffin tins or one 20cm springform tin.
Place butter, baking soda, cinnamon, sugar, apples, raisins and milk into a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves and the butter melts. Remove to cool.
Beat in egg. Add oats, sifted flour and baking powder and stir to combine. Spoon mixture into prepared pans, sprinkle with streusel topping and bake for 20 minutes or until springy to the touch. Cool in tins for 10 minutes before turning out.
Dust with icing sugar to serve.
Streusel topping
50g butter, cubed
1/2 cup plain flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Rub butter into flour until crumbly. Stir in cinnamon and sugar. Sprinkle over cakes before baking.
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