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- Published:30 Sep 13
- Updated:18 Mar 24
- Test kitchen approved
Three moist, apple sponges are layered together with caramelised apples, salted caramel sauce and Greek yogurt. This celebration layer cake is utter bliss. Watch our how-to video below.
If you like this recipe, you’ll love our toffee apple cake served with toffee sauce on the side.
Easy
- October 2013
Test kitchen approved
Serves 12-16
Takes 45 minutes to make, 1 hour to cook
Three moist, apple sponges are layered together with caramelised apples, salted caramel sauce and Greek yogurt. This celebration layer cake is utter bliss. Watch our how-to video below.
If you like this recipe, you’ll love our toffee apple cake served with toffee sauce on the side.
Nutrition: per serving
- Calories
- 620kcals
- Fat
- 38.7g (23.9g saturated)
- Protein
- 6.8g
- Carbohydrates
- 61.2g (45.5g sugars)
- Fibre
- 2.7g
- Salt
- 0.5g
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Ingredients
For the sponge
- 4 cox apples
- 340g, plus 50g caster sugar
- 375g unsalted butter, room temperature, plus extra for greasing
- 5 large free-range eggs
- 385g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
For the filling
- 4 eating apples, such as braeburn
- 50g caster sugar
- 70g unsalted butter
- 350ml thick full fat Greek yogurt (we like Total Full Fat)
For the caramel
- 75g unsalted butter
- 50g soft light brown sugar
- 50g caster sugar
- 50g golden syrup
- 20g icing sugar
- 230ml double cream
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Method
- Preheat the oven to 170ºC/fan 150ºC/gas 3½. Grease and line the sides and bottoms of 3 x 20cm cake tins with baking paper. For the sponge, peel, core and chop the apples. Put in a pan over a medium-high heat and add 100ml water and the 50g caster sugar. Cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring frequently and adding more water if necessary, until mostly turned to a purée. Take off the heat and leave to cool completely.
- In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar with an electric hand mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the cooled apple.
- Sift over the flour and baking powder with a pinch of salt, then fold in with a metal spoon. Divide the mix equally among the 3 cake tins, then bake for 30 minutes until the sponge bounces back when touched. If you’re cooking all 3 cakes in the same oven you might need to take the top cake out and move the bottom one up to the top for an extra 5 minutes, leaving the middle one where it is.
- Leave the sponges to cool for 10 minutes in the tins, then carefully turn out onto a rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, make the filling. Peel and core the apples, then slice thinly lengthways. Put a pan over a medium-high temperature and add the sliced apples, sugar and butter.
- Cook, stirring often, until the apples caramelise lightly (this should take about 15 minutes – lower the heat or remove the pan if it happens too quickly). When the apples are golden and caramelised, remove them from the pan with a slotted spoon, then put onto baking paper to cool.
- When the cakes have cooled, put one sponge on a serving plate and top with half the Greek yogurt. Scatter over just under half of the sticky apples, then put a second sponge on top and repeat the process, saving some apples for the final decoration. Top with the remaining sponge.
- Put all the caramel ingredients into a pan and heat gently to melt. Simmer for 7-8 minutes, stirring, until it turns into golden caramel.
- Pour over the top of the cake, allowing the caramel to run down the sides. Leave the cake somewhere cool for 1 hour or so (see tip), then serve, cutting with a serrated knife.
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- Recipe from October 2013 Issue
Nutrition
Nutrition: per serving
- Calories
- 620kcals
- Fat
- 38.7g (23.9g saturated)
- Protein
- 6.8g
- Carbohydrates
- 61.2g (45.5g sugars)
- Fibre
- 2.7g
- Salt
- 0.5g
delicious. tips
Serrated knives are best for cutting delicate cakes as their sawing motion cuts the soft crumb better than a kitchen knife.
It’s best to assemble the cake, then leave it somewhere cool for an hour or so.
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- Published:30 Sep 13
- Updated:18 Mar 24
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