Poppyseed Coconut Allspice Apple Cake

What is more satisfying than the smell of a freshly baked cake? The air is perfumed with the smell of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and apples. It's fantastic to have a cup of tea with a warm slice of poppyseed, coconut, allspice, apple cake on any day but even more so on a gloomy winter's day.

When it's drizzling all day outside and gloomy grey, I like to conjure  sunshine, tropics  and a sense of wellbeing. Allspice, is a Jamaican dried berry which contains the flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves all in one and always brings to mind something warm and comforting. Coconut is for me, the ultimate of the tropics. Poppyseed is full of goodness and antioxidants and is reputed to help lower negative cholesterol. Besides it has a nice nutty taste and adds texture.

As the cake has a very low ratio of flour to fruit, the poppy seeds which I decided to use as partial flour substitute helps hold the cake together.

To make:
2 eggs                                                     75g poppy seeds                            20g baking powder
120g sugar                                           25g coconut flakes                       1 tsp Jamaican Allspice
100ml oil                                              150g flour                                         2 apples chopped into small pieces
100ml unsweetened apple juice or orange juice 
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Cream together sugar and eggs till thickened and frothy. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix gently but quickly till all the apple pieces are well incorporated. Pour into a *prepared cake tin and pop into a 180C for about 35mins or till when tested with a skewer in the middle and it comes out clean. (Ovens heat differently).
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Voila! Enjoy.

​Tip: Tastes amazing with warm vanilla sauce.

        Frothy egg and sugar

       The rest of the ingredients                             added

     All the ingredients gathered

​Filled into a
​prepared tin


                          Lovely and done

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Note: This makes a loaf pan sized cake but if you want a full sized 28cm cake, just double the amount!

* to prepare a cake tin, brush with oil and sprinkle flour or bread crumbs over the oil.