This cake can be served warm as a dessert or cold as a teatime treat. It’s delicious with custard, but it would also be good with crème fraîche, clotted cream, vanilla ice cream or whipped cream – the list is endless! If you don’t fancy the apple, try using rhubarb or blackberries, depending on the time of year.
Serves:4
Ingredients:
For the streusel:
4 tbsp plain flour
1oz (2 tbsp) Kerrygold butter, diced, extra to grease
2 tbsp light brown sugar
3 tbsp toasted skinned hazelnuts, finely chopped
For the cake:
5oz (10 tbsp) Kerrygold butter, at room temperature
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 23cm (9in) loose-bottomed cake tin and then line with a circle of buttered parchment paper. To make the streusel, place the flour in a small bowl and rub in the butter, then stir in the brown sugar and hazelnuts.
To make the cake, beat the butter and caster sugar together with a hand held electric mixer in a bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, a little at a time, adding one tablespoon of the flour when you have added about half of the beaten eggs. This will stop it from curdling. Sift over the rest of the flour and the baking powder and cinnamon, then mix lightly. Add the apple, hazelnuts and milk and fold in until thoroughly combined.
Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared cake tin and spread level. Scatter the streusel in an even layer on top of the cake mixture and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour until the sides of the cake have shrunk slightly away from the tin and the streusel topping is golden brown. To test if the cake is done, insert a fine metal skewer into the middle. If it comes out clean, the cake is ready. Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes set on a wire rack.
To serve, cut the apple and hazelnut streusel cake into slices and arrange on plates with the warm custard.
This Tomato and Red Onion Salad could be served with any of the other recipes. It would be particularly nice with the Spiced Haddock.
Serves 4
Cooking time:
Ingredients
4 whiting fillets, around 175g each, skinned and boned
½ tablesp. olive oil
A little salt and black pepper
A knob of butter
Tomato and Red Onion Salad
200g tomatoes, roughly chopped
½ small red onion, thinly sliced
Juice of half a lemon
2 tablesp. olive oil
Salt and black pepper
Bunch of chives, thinly sliced
Pea and Potato Mash
1kg potatoes, peeled and freshly cooked
150g frozen peas, cooked
6 tablesp. milk
25g butter
To Cook
Heat a little olive oil in a large frying pan. Season the fish and add to the pan, skin side up. Fry for 3-4 minutes then turn it over. Add a knob of butter to the pan and continue to cook the fish for another 3-4 minutes until it flakes easily with a fork. As the butter melts spoon it over the fish.
Meanwhile combine the salad ingredients. Taste for seasoning.
Heat the milk and butter in a saucepan then combine with the cooked potatoes and peas. Mash well. Season to taste.
Serving Suggestions
Serve the fish with the Tomato and Red Onion Salad and Pea and Potato Mash.
Hello Monday! Quick, easy and healthy, this Fruit & Nut Porridge is the perfect breakfast to start your day right! Packed with delicious raspberries, cacao nibs and crunchy nuts, this recipe will make sure you’re ready to face any challenge the day ahead may bring (and it’ll fill you up until lunchtime too!)! #FlahavansOats#FlahavansRecipes
Ingredients: 40g Flahavan’s Progress Oatlets 125ml Milk 50ml Water Handful of Raspberries 3 tbsp Cacao Nibs Handful of roughly chopped Tiger Nuts
Method: Combine the milk, water and Flahavan’s Oats in a saucepan Bring to the boil, stirring continuously. When boiling, reduce heat to medium, then add raspberries, cocoa nibs and chopped tiger nuts, leaving a little aside for garnish. Simmer for 5 minutes, continuing to stir. Serve and sprinkle with the leftover toppings. See less