Bramley Apple and 'Wild Spice' Cake - By Richard Hughes

The cake will be quite wet, indeed that’s why we call it a pudding cake. As it stands the fruit will release more juice, and so it keeps very well, if you can resist it!

250g muscovado sugar
250g butter
2 teaspoons mixed spice
250g wholemeal flour
2 tsp baking powder
3 eggs                                                                                                                      125ml Wild  Spice ale
400g chopped Bramley apples (peeled and cored)

• Cream together the butter, spice and sugar.
• Sift together the baking powder and the flour.
• Alternately add the beaten egg and the flour.
• Fold in the fruit.
• Add the ale
• Line an 8 inch spring loaded cake tin with buttered greaseproof paper.
• Place the mixture in the tin.
• Bake for 60 minutes at Gas Mark 4/180°C.

Thanks to chef Richard Hughes for providing us with this recipe.

Chef Richard Hughes is well-known throughout Norfolk, thanks to his regular recipe pages in the Eastern Daily Press and EDP Norfolk magazine. ... A skilled chef and former Norwich City College tutor, he is often asked to demonstrate at cookery events and is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio Norfolk programmes.