This cake has become a staple in my household, even before the whole coronavirus thing made people flock to the internets in their grand quest to study how to actually use all that flour and sugar they bulk-bought. /facetious tone
I'm not sure if it's a real recipe already on the internet or not. This particular iteration of an apple cake was created by me just throwing ingredients together one day when I was too lazy to google for a proper recipe, and it's since stuck.
Now I'm sharing it!
So why 'Unprepared Cook?'
Because I literally have no standard baking utensils.
I have one mixing bowl that is usually pilfered by my son because he likes to eat out of a giant bowl. I don't have bake-ware and instead use disposables. AND I use coffee mugs to measure things. Sometimes I guess and hope for the best! 😂
So, let's begin some chaotic cooking!
INGREDIENTS
2 coffee mugs Self Raising Flour
1 coffee mug White Sugar
a pinch of Salt
100g Butter, cubed and melted
1 coffee mug of Milk, give or take a splash
2 large Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
2 Granny Smith Apples, peeled and chopped roughly in both tiny and small pieces
1 giant handful Sultanas
- an oven preheated to 180 Celsius.
- a large-ish rectangular baking dish.
First we mix our dry ingredients together. That's your Flour, Sugar, and pinch of Salt. Then we mix, mix, mix until it's all uniform and nice. Now you won't bite into one weirdly salty piece of cake!
Now we add our wet ingredients! Some recipes out there in the world recommend you add things one at a time, that you cream this first, beat that next, blah blah blah. I'm not that fancy.
CHUCK IT ALL IN!
That's your Eggs, Vanilla Essence, Melted Butter, and Milk. Mix, mix, mix -- combine!
You may or may not need an extra dash of milk. It varies for me. Probably because I'm using coffee mugs. 😂
Now add your chopped up Granny Smiths and a giant handful of sultanas out of that old bag that has been sitting in the back of the pantry since forever. MIX AGAIN!
Grab your trusty disposable baking dish you conveniently bought from the shops because you're too lazy to clean a proper baking dish every damned time. Then scrape all the delicious mix into the tray!
Sprinkle some Cinnamon on top, followed by an extra coating of Sugar. Mmmm.
If you have a miniature human nearby, those creatures tend to enjoy licking the spoon and bowl afterwards. Apparently that's baaaaaaaddddd mmmkay according to health advice, but whatever. What good's a childhood if you can't eat cake mix?
Now chuck it in the oven and bake at 180 Celsius for 40 minutes. Give or take depending on your cake's consistency. Sometimes, with my awful measurements, I can get away with 30 minutes -- today's was 40 minutes.
While you wait you should scroll through Hive over and over, refresh your feed every few minutes in the hopes that something has changed since you last checked, find a post to write a comment on then agonise how to word it lest you come across like a weirdo, then rejoice as your oven timer beeps!
Hallelujah!
You might want to wait a bit, though. It's too hot and fresh. If you cut into this delicious chunk of cake right now, it'll crumble to pieces! You don't want that. DO, however, grab a knife and cut around the cake where it touches the edge of the tray.
Just to make life easier when you do cut it open.
Wait another half hour or so. Maybe drink some wine while you're refreshing Hive this time.
Wine + Social Blockchain = 💃
(I bet you're not agonising over your comments now! 😆)
And now we're ready to feast!
This thing probably has way too many calories, which is unhelped by the fact I have served it with custard, but there you go.
Pure deliciousness. All thanks to the glorious coffee mug. 😄
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Until next time,
Thank you for stopping by!
, her kitchen, and the tiny amount of Homebrand Woolies Ingredients she managed to grab before the world went crazy.