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We love baking loaf cakes and this easy apple loaf cake is out latest bake. With a touch of cinnamon, it’s an apple cinnamon cake that the whole family will love – for breakfast, as an afternoon tea treat or as a snack in the evening.

How to make an old fashioned apple loaf cake?

To make this moist apple loaf cake we use typical cake ingredients – butter or margarine, self raising flour, soft brown sugar, eggs and then apples and ground cinnamon for the added flavour.

Although we use light brown sugar, golden caster sugar or granulated sugar also work well in this apple cake loaf. We also use self raising flour for ease but you can use plain flour or all purpose flour with a little baking powder or baking soda if you wanted.

We literally use any apples that are in the fruit bowl for this apple cinnamon loaf cake recipe – anything from Granny Smith apples to cox or braeburn. You don’t need to use cooking apples for this recipe.

If you’re looking for other recipes to make, here’s our banana bread, Cherry and Coconut Flapjack Recipe, Mini Banana Cakes Recipe and Apple Fairy Cakes Recipe. You can see all our recipes to date here – including many more baking recipes.

What equipment do you need for this loaf cake recipe?

You can make this recipe simply with things you already have in your kitchen but here are the things we use in case there’s something you don’t already have:

As you can see, it’s all things you probably have already. We use loaf tin liners to guarantee that bakes come out of the tin easily and they’re great when baking as gifts too but parchment paper works well too.

So here’s our Apple Loaf Cake Recipe:

Ingredients

180g unsalted butter or margarine at room temperature
180g light brown sugar
3 eggs
160g self raising flour
150g apples, roughly two, chopped into small bite size pieces
2 tsp cinnamon

Recipe

Preheat oven at 160C/300F/Gas 2
Cream together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well
Pour the batter mixture into a lined/greased loaf tin and bake in the middle of the oven for 50 minutes until brown on the top and a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack and serve.

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