APPLE TEA BREAD

This apple tea bread is a yummy combination of raisins and apples. And the roasted and grounded spice powder gives this tea bread a wonderful flavor. Whenever I bake this bread at my home, my entire house gets filled with this maddening fragrance. Not only this, even my neighbors can smell this from our staircase. So if you also want to savour this awesome cake, do try this simple recipe at your home.

INGREDIENTS

Refined flour (Maida)-200 gm

Butter-100 gm

Castor sugar-100 gm

Raisins-1/2 cup

Chopped Apple-1/2 apple

Baking powder-1tsp

Eggs-2

Spice powder- 1 tbsp (Roasted and grounded cloves, green cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, mace)
Honey-1 tsp
Vanilla essence- few drops

METHOD

Sieve all the dry ingredients (refined flour, baking powder) and the roasted powder in one bowl, keep aside. Mix butter and sugar to a smooth mixture. Beat one-by-one 2 eggs to the butter-sugar mixture till it becomes fluffy. Now fold all the dry ingredients to this mixture. Add raisins and chopped apple pieces to the batter. Now grease cake-mould and pour the batter into it. Pre-heat oven for 15 mins.at 130 C and bake it for 40mins. When the bread or cake has been baked properly, brush the top surface of the cake with a mixture of honey and vanilla essence. Dust castor sugar over it and serve hot.