Apple And Pine Nut Cake

• 150 g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 110 g caster sugar
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 125 g unsalted butter, melted
• 4 None medium unpeeled golden delicious apples, cored, thinly sliced
• 120 g pine nuts
• 1 None lemon, grated rind
• None None icing sugar, to dust
• None None mascarpone, to serve

1. Preheat oven to 180u0b0C./ 160u0b0C. fan. Gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 20cm springform pan and dust with flour.
2. Sift flour and baking powder together into a bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in centre and add eggs and melted butter. Stir, gradually incorporating flour, to make a thick batter.
3. Fold in 1/4 of the sliced apple, and 1/2 of the pine nuts and lemon rind. Spoon into prepared pan. Arrange remaining sliced apple on top of cake and sprinkle with remaining pine nuts. Bake for 1 hour 5 minutes, covering with brown paper bag or foil if cake is browning too much, until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
4. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a serving platter to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar and serve with mascarpone.

flour, baking powder, caster sugar, eggs, unsalted butter, apples, nuts, lemon, icing sugar, mascarpone

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