Kitchen garden cook Cooking apples

Spiced apple layer cake with cardamom mascarpone frosting

- Melanie Johnson

Ingredients

Serves 10-12

For the cake

• 100g golden sultanas

• 2tbspn Calvados, apple juice or Earl Grey tea (for soaking)

• 3 large eggs

• 200g light-brown sugar

• 100g golden caster sugar

• 150ml light olive oil

• 1tspn vanilla-bean paste

• 4 medium cooking apples (about 500g), peeled, cored and coarsely grated

• 200g self-raising flour

• ½tspn baking powder

• 1tspn ground cinnamon

• ½tspn ground ginger

• A pinch of sea salt

• 100g ground almonds

For the apple decoration

• 2-3 cooking apples

• ½ lemon, juice of

• 1tbspn caster sugar