A lovely, delicately spiced apple cake which just has to be good for you – it has apples in it! Perfect with custard, ice cream or whipped cream, this is a no-fuss dessert which will wow everyone who tries it! If you don’t want to make the effort of making the batter yourself, you can buy a standard cake mix and just add the 2 tsp of mixed spice. This recipe is for an 8 cup rice cooker. You can scale ingredients to suit your rice cooker capacity accordingly.
AuthorHungry PandaCategoryDessertsDifficultyAdvancedCombine dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Be sure to remove lumps. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs with a fork and stir in the milk to make the ’egg mixture’.
Cream butter until light and fluffy (you can use a hand mixer or stand mixer for this!). With the mixer on low, start by alternating the dry mixture and the egg mixture. Pour 1⁄3 of the dry mixture into the creamed butter, then add 1⁄2 of the egg mixture. Alternate until all ingredients used. Stir by hand to fully combine.
Grease rice cooker inner bowl with butter (make sure this goes halfway up the inner bowl). Arrange thin apple slices on the bottom in a pretty pattern and pour half of the mixture on top.
Tap the bottom of the inner bowl with your palm to dislodge bubbles. Add the remaining sliced apples and cake mixture.
Pat bowl again thoroughly then put in rice cooker. Select the ’CAKE’ function and the time for 45 minutes and press ’START’.
Leave to cool then empty onto plate. Invert the cake to serve to really show off the pretty apple effect.
Ingredients
Directions
Combine dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Be sure to remove lumps. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs with a fork and stir in the milk to make the ’egg mixture’.
Cream butter until light and fluffy (you can use a hand mixer or stand mixer for this!). With the mixer on low, start by alternating the dry mixture and the egg mixture. Pour 1⁄3 of the dry mixture into the creamed butter, then add 1⁄2 of the egg mixture. Alternate until all ingredients used. Stir by hand to fully combine.
Grease rice cooker inner bowl with butter (make sure this goes halfway up the inner bowl). Arrange thin apple slices on the bottom in a pretty pattern and pour half of the mixture on top.
Tap the bottom of the inner bowl with your palm to dislodge bubbles. Add the remaining sliced apples and cake mixture.
Pat bowl again thoroughly then put in rice cooker. Select the ’CAKE’ function and the time for 45 minutes and press ’START’.
Leave to cool then empty onto plate. Invert the cake to serve to really show off the pretty apple effect.
Notes
Make it vegan by switching to non dairy equivalents and flax egg (e.g.100ml of oil can be used instead of butter)
Watch our recipe video to see how it’s made!
In this video we use Yum Asia Sakura rice cooker.