Apple & Blackberry Cake (Sharlotka)

Name: Apple & Blackberry Cake (Sharlotka)
Yield: Makes a 9 inch cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 6 large cooking apples; 1 handful blackberries; 200 g caster sugar; 3 large eggs; 125 g all purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon vanilla paste

Mummybot 🤖 @cook_13883553

Bath, England

Living close by an apple orchard definitely has its perks at this time of the year. We have loads of apples, so I was looking for a cake recipe that would use lots of them up, not just one or two. This Russian Sharlotka recipe has no butter or oil in it and the structure is held up by the apples. So it is important to use cooking apples such as Bramleys that will not shrink too much once cooked. It is a dessert type apple cake and so delicious served with cream or greek yoghurt dolloped on top of it.

Mummybot 🤖 @cook_13883553

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Ingredients

Makes a 9 inch cake

6large cooking apples
1 handfulblackberries
200 gcaster sugar
3large eggs
125 gall purpose flour
1 teaspoonground cinnamon
1 teaspoonvanilla paste

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Steps

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Grease and line a 9 inch cake tin with baking parchment. Preheat oven to 170C. Peel, core and slice apples into thin pieces. Place them directly into the pan.
2

Place the eggs and sugar into a mixer and whisk till thick and pale. Add vanilla and mix in. Spoon flour and cinnamon into the egg mixture and fold till just incorporated.
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Pour the thick batter over the apples in the cake pan and smoosh the batter down to make sure it flows into all the crevices. Scatter blackberries over the top. Bake for 1 hour or until a cake tester comes out clean. Leave to cool and unmold. Serve with a dusting of icing sugar and lashings of cream.