Jenny Flynn, the head chef at Faithlegg House Hotel, joined Maria McCann on The Saturday Café for Food at Faithlegg. This recipe is for Spiced Irish Apple and Whiskey Cake
Traditional Irish Halloween dishes are hearty, rustic and use seasonal autumn ingredients like cabbage, apples, oats and potatoes.
Halloween is the real start of winter, and it was a feast of abundance before the harsh winter set in. So I have used apples, oats and of course whiskey to create this dish for you to try at home,
You will need for the cake
- 150g cream flour
- 100g ground oats (I put them in the food processor on pulse)
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1tsp cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 125g butter
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3-4 Bramely apples peeled and sliced
- 2tsps milk
- Flaked almonds to decorate
Method:
- Preheat your oven to 175c grease an 8inch cake tin, I use a cheesecake tin so I can remove the outside while keeping the base
- Rub the butter and flour together sieve in the baking powder and spices together
- Stir in sugar, then mix in apples.
- Drop an egg in at a time and mix with the milk to bind.
- Bake for approx..40-45mins until golden and firm
- Serve warm with the whiskey cream
For the whiskey cream
200ml whipped cream 1tsp whiskey dissolved with 1tsp of brown sugar
Mixed altogether
Jenny’s tip: I love to serve a warm butterscotch sauce with this cake or if you have more apples to use up, you can caramelise them and put them on top
Enjoy!
Jenny Flynn
