Apple & Orange Sponge Cake | Good Food

Apple & Orange Sponge Cake

6 granny smith apples,peeled,cored and cut into small pieces
2 oranges,rind and juice
1 tbsp honey
200g butter,softened
150g granulated sugar
4 eggs,large
350g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder

Method

step 1
Preheat the oven to 180C
step 2
Put the apples,orange juice and rind in a 24x33cm roasting tin,and drizzle with honey. Roast in the oven for 15 minutes,take out,stir,and put back for another 15 minutes. Then take out a leave to cool. Leave the oven on.
step 3
Put the sugar and butter into a mixing bowl and beat until light and soft. Beat in the eggs one by one. Sieve the flour and baking powder into the mixture and mix well.
step 4
Add the cooled apples and stir together with a spoon.
step 5
Butter and flour the same roasting tin that you roasted the apples in. Pour the mixture in to the tin. Bake for 25-30 minutes until well risen or until nice and golden.