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Somerset Cider Cakes

Somerset Cider Cakes
  • Somerset Cider Cakes
Preparation time: 30 Mins
Cooking time: 60 - 90 Mins

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons soft brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 eggs (not straight from the fridge but at room temperature)
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • half a nutmeg grated
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 8 fluid oz dry cider

Method

  1. In a large basin Cream the sugar and butter together using a wooden spoon until the mixture is light in colour and fluffy in texture.
  2. Break the eggs into a Separate basin and beat them.
  3. Beat the eggs into the sugar and butter Mix.
  4. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and nutmeg together and Fold into the butter and sugar mix.
  5. Slowly Stir in the cider.
  6. Bake in a well greased 7 inch tin at 190°C for 1 - 1 1/2 hours.

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