Apple cake recipe that has zesty lemon and organic fairtrade mixed spice added to the tart chunks of apple. A wonderfully fresh fruit cake recipe using steenbergs organic fairtrade spices

Ingredients

• 500g/ 1lb cooking apples, thinly sliced
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 2 pinches organic Fairtrade mixed spice
• 1tbsp caster sugar, or flavoured sugar like cinnamon or lemon sugar(if using cinnamon sugar, drop the mixed spice)
• 225g/ 8oz unsalted butter, at room temperature and chopped into cubes
• 195g/6¾ oz caster sugar
• 6 large eggs, at room temperature and whisked gently
• 1 tsp organic Fairtrade vanilla extract
• 195g/6¾ oz organic plain flour
• 2tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp sea salt
• ½ tsp organic Fairtrade cinnamon powder
• 75g/2½ oz organic ground almonds