Apple, Pecan And Cinnamon Crumble Cake — Belinda Jeffery

Ingredients

• Serves 10.
• Cinnamon and pecan crumble:
• 130g lightly roasted pecans
• 60g soft brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 40g cold unsalted butter, cut into small chunks
• Cake:
• 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 200g caster sugar
• 2 eggs, at room temperature
• 150g unsalted butter, cut into chunks, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup (125ml) milk, at room temperature
• 500g (about 4 smallish) royal gala or pink lady apples, peeled, halved and cored, then cut into 4mm thick slices
• Icing sugar, for dusting