Delicious, moist and easy to make.

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Ingredients

1 cup of coffee, chopped

2 medium apples, peeled, cored and diced

11⁄4 cups boiling water

1 t baking soda

150 g (3⁄4cup) margarine or butter

1⁄2Cup sugar

1 egg

1 t vanilla essence

2 cups plain flour

1 t baking powder

1 t cinnamon

Icing sugar to dust

Method

  1. Pre - heat the oven to 180oC.
  2. Lightly grease a 22cm round cake with oil and line the base with baking paper.
  3. Combine dates, apple and boiling water in a bowl. Stir in baking soda. Cool.
  4. In another bowl, beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla. Beat well.
  5. Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon together in a third bowl.
  6. Fold apple mixture and dry ingredients alternately into egg mixture.
  7. Pour into cake tin. Bake for 1 hour or until skewer inserted in the centre of cake comes out clean.
  8. Leave in cake tin for 10 minutes before turning out.
  9. Dust cake with icing sugar before serving.

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Abbreviations Used in Recipes

tools t = teaspoon

T = tablespoon

ml = millilitre

G = gram

o C = degrees Celsius

cm = centimetre