This recipe is easy to make and brings together autumn flavours of the apples while we invite in the winter berries as a perfect marriage with a light sponge.

Ingredients

Serves: 8

  • 220g butter softened
  • 220g castor sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 400g self-raising flour
  • Drop vanilla essence
  • Zest of a lemon
  • 50ml milk
  • 4 large apples ( 40g sugar, 20g butter)
  • Pinch cinnamon
  • 250g mixed berries (frozen bag is perfect)

Method

  1. Peel apples and slice thinly, add a sprinkle of sugar and knob of butter, cinnamon then soften apples on the heat in a small pot.
  2. Remove from heat and add mixed berries. Stir gently together and spread apples and fruit onto a dish/tray or tin.
  3. For the sponge: In a bowl soften the butter and beat with electric mixer until light and creamy then add the sugar and beat for a further two minutes.
  4. Add beaten eggs and vanilla essence and mix together until mixture is light and fluffy. Add the milk.
  5. Fold in the sieved flour or gently mix in using mixer on a low speed.
  6. Spread and marble the sponge mix in on top of the fruit. Transfer to the oven and bake for 30 - 35 minutes.
  7. Serve with lashings of warm custard or whipped cream.