Apple and Cinnamon Cake

Ingredients

8 oz 225g soft margarine

8 oz 225g light muscavado sugar

3 medium eggs

4 oz 100g walnut pieces

8 oz 225g self raising flour

2 tsps baking powder

14 oz 400g cooking apples peeled, cored and grated

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180/ 350/ Gas Mark 4

2. Grease and base line a 9" round tin preferably spring form

3. Mix all the ingredients together except the apple and cinnamon until well blended.

4. Spoon half the mixture into the tin and cover with the grated apples and sprinkle with the cinnamon

5. Spread the remainder of the mixture over the apple and sprinkle with additional

dememera sugar. I use Waitrose Cinnamon sugar.

6. Bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours until golden and firm and a knife comes out clean.

7. Leave in the tin for a few minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.