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I'm a great fan of apple cakes and have posted several recipes on here. This one sounded good, especially as I had some raisins to use up, and a few apples getting soft in the fruit bowl. It comes from my collection of magazine recipes, which one day I WILL organise! The recipe added peel [which I dislike] and the grated rind of an orange, but I didn't add these as I wanted the spices to come through. I used more spice than the recipe stated as I love them! A nice, easy cake which we ate warm, as a pudding, last night, with some creme fraiche. The cooking smell was MMMMMMMM! 75g butter or margarine 175g soft brown sugar 110g plain flour 110g wholemeal flour 2 tspns baking powder 1 tspn mixed spice 1 tspn cinnamon 2 eggs 3 or 4 apples - cooking or eating - about 550g 120g raisins milk Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/gas4 In a bowl, mix together the flours, spices and baking powder. Peel, core and chop the apples into little cu...

As part of our 'trying to lose weight', I thought I'd make a healthier cake! Sounds logical to me! At the end, I decided to ice it with orange flavoured glace icing - not so healthy! The original recipe is from an old copy of 'Woman's Weekly' magazine, but I've adapted it several times, so I think of it as my recipe now! 3 medium carrots 85g raisins 85g honey 1 tspn vanilla essence 3 eggs 125ml rapeseed oil [or any vegetable oil] 125g sr flour 125g wholemeal sr flour 1 tspn baking powder 1 heaped tspn cinnamon - if you like it, as I do! 25g soft brown sugar 2-3 tbspn milk heat oven to 170C/325F/gas4 Grease and base line a 20cm springform cake tin. Grate the carrots - not too finely. Put the eggs, honey, vanilla and oil in a bowl and beat together. Then put the flours, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar in another bowl and mix them together. Add the flour mixture to the egg one and mix it all together well. Stir in the carrots and raisin...