A Slow Autumn Day at Home in Rural England | Devon Apple Cake, Organising & Everyday Homemaking

A slow autumn day at home in the English countryside, with homemade Devon apple cake, a little organising and some everyday homemaking.

I’ve been spending time organising our home learning space, making room for new ideas and possibilities, while enjoying these unexpected sunny days as autumn slowly unfolds. There’s apple cake baking in the kitchen, little jobs to do around the home and a reminder that life doesn’t always need to be perfectly in order for us to find something lovely in the everyday.

Thank you for spending a little time with me. 🤎

Devon Apple Cake
Ingredients
500g (3 1/2 cups) Bramley apples, peeled, cored and diced
175g (3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp) slightly salted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
175g (3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp) light muscovado or brown sugar, plus 3 tbsp
2 medium eggs, beaten
250g (2 cups) self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
0.5 - 1 tsp ground mixed spice or ginger depending on how intense you like the flavour
(I used ginger)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
100g sultanas ( I left these out)
2 tbsp water

Method
1. Cook apples with 2 tbsp water, covered, until soft but slightly chunky. Cool.
2. Heat oven to 160°C / Gas 3. Grease and line a 20cm spring form cake tin.
3. Beat butter and 175g sugar until pale and creamy. Gradually beat in eggs.
4. Sift flour, baking powder and spices. Stir half into the mixture, followed by the apple purée and sultanas, then the remaining flour.
5. Spoon into the tin and level. Sprinkle with the remaining 3 tbsp sugar.
6. Bake for 55–60 minutes, until firm and a skewer comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack

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