Makes 4 portions
Ingredients
Flour mixture
- 200g flour
- 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- ½ teaspoon ground vanilla
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 pinch salt
- 240g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 200ml walnut oil
- 350g tart apples
- 160g chopped walnuts
- 400g package red cabbage and apple
Cream cheese frosting
- 400g cream cheese
- 100g butter
- 150g icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Step 1: The beginning
Tip the red cabbage and apple into a sieve and drain well. Then peel and core the apples, chop into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice. Coarsely chop the walnuts.
Preheat the oven to 170°C (150°C fan).
Step 2: Mix the batter and add red cabbage, apples and nuts.
Mix flour, bicarbonate of soda, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix sugar, eggs and oil. Add the flour mixture a bit at a time, mixing to incorporate. Then fold in the apple cubes, chopped walnuts and drained red cabbage.
Step 3: Bake the cake
Thoroughly butter the fluted tube pan. Pour batter into the tin; place the tin on a rack in the middle of the hot oven. Bake the sweet red cabbage cake for about 60 minutes.
Let the cake cool on a cooling rack for about 30 minutes, then remove from the tin.
Step 4: Prepare the frosting
To prepare the frosting, put all the ingredients (room temperature) in a bowl and mix until smooth and creamy. Refrigerate the frosting for about an hour.
Step 5: The final touch
When the cake has cooled off, frost the top and sides or only the top.
