Apple honey tea cakes

Apple and cinnamon go together so beautifully. You'll love these sweet cakes.

Credit: My Market Kitchen

• makes

  6

• prep

  10 minutes

• cook

  20 minutes

• difficulty

  Easy

Ingredients

• 175 g butter softened
• 140 g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup honey
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 1½ cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 2 Granny Smith apples (see Note)
• 2 tsp demerara sugar
• Icing sugar, to decorate

Instructions

1. Grease a six-hole mini loaf tray, or six individual mini load pans. Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
2. Cream the butter and caster sugar in a stand mixer. Add in 1 egg at a time, then add in ¼ cup of honey, vanilla bean paste and cinnamon and mix until combine.  
3. Fold in flour, then divide the batter among the greased mini loaf pans.
4. Peel (see Note) and core apples and cut into quarters. Thinly slice the apples from the outside in, but not all the way through (see Note).
5. Pop one apple piece into the batter in each loaf. The top of each piece will stick out of the batter. Sprinkle the demerara sugar over the top. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
6. Cool briefly in tin. Remove and drizzle remaining honey over. Dust with icing sugar.  

Notes

• You need six apple pieces for this recipe. You can use 1½ apples, cutitng six quarters with a half apple left over, or cut six 'cheeks', 3 from each of the two apples. You could also leave the skin on, for a different texture.

• Khan’s tip for slicing the apples easily is to use two chopsticks as guiderails. Place the apple piece between two parallel chopsticks, with the outside of the apple piece facing up. Holding the chopsticks and apple carefully with one hand, and the knife in the other, make repeated downward slices; the chopsticks will stop the knife before it hits the board or bench.

Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.