Apple Streusel Cake

I baked this streusel cake the day when we had " Teo Chew" porridge for dinner. Obviouly, we need a sweet dessert to complement the light dinner, otherwise we'll need another round of supper!

I've written down this recipe which I got from a friend (Djelita). She is a great cake baker! I'll encourage you to try this recipe. It's easy except you'll need to take extra effort to separate the ingredients as both streusel and cakes have flour,sugar of different measurement. Don't get mixed up!

Ingredients:

For cooking apple in a sauce pan:

4 medium green apples (Granny Smith preferred)

1 tab spoon caster sugar

60 ml water

For butter cake:

185 g butter, soften

130 g caster sugar

2 eggs

335 g self-raising flour

180 ml fresh milk

For cinnamon Streusel Topping:

110 g self-raising flour

60 g butter

75 g soft brown sugar

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

2 teaspoons water, approximately

Methods:

1. Grease deep 20cm square cake pan, dust with some flour or line base with baking paper.

2. Peel, core and quarter apples; slice thinly. Combine apple, sugar and water in a saucepan. Bring to boil and simmer till apple is tender. Drain well before use.

3. Meanwhile, beat butter and sugar in an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Fold in flour and milk alternately until well mixed.

4. Spread two-thirds of the mixture evenly over base of prepared pan, top evenly with apple, then spread with remaining mixture. Sprinkle evenly with cinnamon streusel topping.

5. Bake cake in a preheat oven (gas mark 7). First middle rack, 20 min later lower rack at gas mark 6) about 40 minutes. Stand cake 5 minutes then turn over onto wire rack. Turn cake top-side up to cool.

Method to prepare cinnamon streusel topping:

Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon; rub in butter with fingertips. Mix in enough water to make mixture come together like a ball, cover with plastic wrap; freeze 30 minutes. Coarsely grate topping mixture and sprinkle on unbaked cake.