Hi, I'm Alice Zaslavsky,
otherwise known as Alice In Frames,
and I'm here with a cake that is actually magic.
Part of what puts people off baking
is all the measuring required.
But in this case, it's very simple.
All you need is one cup of fine flour,
one cup of rough flour, and one cup of sugar.
And then you mix them together in a bowl
and assemble it in the tin.
Brilliant!
First things first, preheat your oven to 180
and line your tin.
Just grab the base, pop the baking paper sheet on top,
and then put the round on top of that.
Spring it closed.
And mix.
And then in terms of flavoring up the mix,
some cinnamon and a pinch of salt,
which I always like to add to my desserts.
Now it's time to get onto the apples.
But before I do that,
I'm going to pop the juice of a lemon.
And I don't know about you but
I still like to see if I can get the whole apple
peeled in one strip.
Yes!
And then you're gonna whack the grated apple
back into the bowl and add a teaspoon of vanilla bean paste
or vanilla extract.
The reason that you want the butter grated
is that the surface area melts much quicker
and distributes among the dry ingredients.
So about a third of your butter
goes on the bottom of the tin.
I like to use a little bit extra to line
the outside as well.
And if you're an orderly kind of person,
all you need to remember is: butter, dry,
apples, dry, butter, apples, walnuts, dry, butter.
And if you can put all that together
and whack it in the oven, you've baked yourself a cake.
And once you've finished with that last butter layer,
just make sure that that's well distributed
so that you get lots of even golden bits.
Now here's the key, do not spring it open.
Let it cool in the tin, otherwise it'll crack.
Walk away.
And then all that's left to do is cut a slice and dig in.
The classic combination of apples,
cinnamon, vanilla, lemon, crunch of the walnuts,
and the butter all come together
to taste like the best apple crumble
you've ever tasted.
It really is magic.
And I hope you give it a go.