Irish Apple Cake - Nora Murphy Country House

Ingredients

• 2 large baking apples
• 1 ¼ cup self-rising flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus a little extra for greasing the pan
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 tablespoons whole milk
• Confectioner’s sugar for dusting, if you’re serving it cold.
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cubed
• Sprigs of fresh mint