How To Make An Apple Bundt Cake

Today, we're going to be making apple bundt cake. We've got 225 grams of soft butter, 450 grams of custard sugar, 4 eggs, 300 grams of self-raising flour, 200 milliliters of apple juice, 3 grated apples. I'm using pink lady apples, it's about 3 apples, a pinch of salt and half a grated nutmeg.

First thing we're going to put in our soft butter and our sugar into our mixing bowl, put it on the machine on a medium speed and while that is mixing, we're going to add our eggs one at a time. And make sure we are adding our eggs just one at a time to make sure that the butter and sugar mix does not split. And while that is mixing together, we can be grating our apple.

And also, we can sift our flour, salt and nutmeg together as well. When I am sifting dry ingredients together, I like to use a nice big drum sieve on to a piece of greaseproof paper. That just stops too much mess and also, it's easy to pour the flour into the mixing bowl when it's sifting.

In goes our flour, pinch of salt, sift these two together. Now, we can grate our nutmeg on to the top as well. Okay, now that the eggs are finished mixing together, I'm going to take them off the machine.

Scrape any mix from the cake beater and then I'm going to add our flour, salt and nutmeg. You can see how nice and easy it is to lift the flour up and pour it into our bowl. And then, I'm going to fold the flour through the egg, sugar and butter mix using big folding movements, round bowl cutting back through, making sure it's nice and lightly incorporated.

Now, I'm going to start and add the apple juice a little bit at a time probably in three separate amounts. And also, we can now add our grated apple. Over here, I've got a bundt tin.

This has been liberally greased and floured. Obviously, from the intricate design, it's easy for the cake to stick inside so you really have to make sure and spend some time greasing and flouring the tin itself. And now that your mix is now thoroughly incorporated, pour into the bundt tin.

It's better to actually, when you are pouring into the tin, to actually move around rather than put it in one spot inside and helping it to move around. This could drag the butter and the flour off the tin. And this goes in the oven, 150 degrees centigrade for about 50 minutes to one hour.

Insert a knife, check to see if it comes out nice and cleanly, and just carefully, the cooling wire, and turn the bundt cake upside down and then leave it for half an hour. Don't start playing with it, the steam inside will help it and come unstuck from the bundt tin. Okay, now we're going to make the icing for the apple bundt cake.

In a bowl here, I have 150 grams of icing sugar, half teaspoon of cinnamon, and also probably about two tablespoons of apple juice. So, in goes half a teaspoon of cinnamon, and then just add our apple juice a little at a time. What we're wanting to achieve for this icing, it's the consistency of single cream.

So when we're pouring it over the cake, it's all drizzling down the sides, it's not about being neat, just about all getting inside the crevices and coating the cake. So, as we can see there, it's around about the consistency of double cream. And then, I'm going to drizzle this all over the cake.

And that is how you make apple bundt cake. .