Kopparberg cake

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:22:07 +0000

A good friend of ours made a status update on Facebook saying she'd made Kopparberg cake. Intrigued, I asked for the recipe, and she obliged by uploading a mobile-phone photograph of the recipe page.

Hannah, I have no idea where you got the recipe from, but it's really tasty! Especially with vanilla ice-cream. Thank you!

In fact, my attempt at the cake had to be eaten with ice-cream because, it wasn't really held-together enough to be eaten as a normal slice of cake. Hopefully future versions will be more refined!

The great thing about this recipe is all the ingredients pretty much just get bunged into one bowl and mixed together.

Ingredients

6 tablespoons of butter
225g self raising flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
75g caster sugar
50g dried apple, chopped
75g raisins
150ml of Kopparberg or any other sweet cider
1 egg
175g raspberries / mixed berries

In translating the blurry mobile-phone photograph I noticed it said 6 tablespoons of butter. Would anyone in the right mind use a tablespoon to measure out butter?? No, I didn't think so. It's about 85 grams anyway.

Instructions

To keep this short, and sweet, (like the cider) just do this:

Put the flour and butter in a big mixing bowl
Get a sharp knife and fork, and chop it up as best you can
Now get one hand in, and smear the butter and flour through your fingers, making a dry, bitty mixture.
Okay, that's as bad as it gets. Next add all the ingredients to the flour and butter.
Mix, and mix well.
Bake for 40 minutes at 190°C

Kind of looks like puke after a night on red wine.
But I guarantee you, it smells amazing!

After 40 minutes, do the knife test - and depending on the depth of the cake tin you used, it might have to go back in for another 10 or 15 minutes.

The original recipe called for a 20cm/8 inch cake tin, but we reckon a shallow brownie tin would have been a much better idea. So that it gets cooked properly in the center.

The apple symbol is a tribute to my new Macbook Pro that I finally got this week after saving for many many months.

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