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This apple and custard tea cake is a delicious after school snack for the kids or to have for morning tea with a cuppa. With a flavour packed mouthful of cake, apple, coconut and custard.
Apple and Custard Teacake
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 mins
Ingredients
Scale
- 50g butter, softened
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 400g can pie apple
- 300ml thick vanilla custard
- 1/3 cup desiccated coconut
Instructions
- Preheat a fan forced oven to 160°C.
- Grease an 8cm deep, 22cm cake pan. Line with baking paper.
- Using an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar and vanilla until light and creamy.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Remove bowl from electric mixer, using a large metal spoon, gently fold through flour and milk until just combined. Do not over mix.
- Spoon half the cake batter into cake pan.
- Place half the pie apple over top of the batter in cake pan.
- Pour half the custard over apple and sprinkle with coconut.
- Carefully spoon the remaining batter over custard then add remaining apple and custard.
- Using a skewer swirl custard into batter.
- Bake in oven for 80-90 minutes or until cooked through.
- Remove from oven and stand for 5 minutes.
- Allow cake to cool completely in pan.
- Cook Time: 1 hour 30 mins
