Apple Cakes

Makes 16 cakes

1 lb cooking apples

Brown sugar

8 oz plain flour

2 level teaspoons cream of tartar

1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Pinch of salt

4 oz margarine

4 oz caster sugar

1 egg

Caster sugar for dusting

1. Grease 16 patty tins or use the ‘if you care’ baking cups (available in Growing with Grace’s shop)
2. Peel and core the apples and cook them, with brown sugar to taste, over a low heat until they form a thick puree.
3. Meanwhile, sift together the flour, cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
4. Cut the margarine into small pieces and rub this into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
5. Stir in the sugar and mix in the beaten egg to form a soft dough. Knead lightly on a floured surface and roll out 1/8 inch thick.
6. Cut out 16 bases and 16 lids with a 2 ½ inch cutter. Lift the cake bases into the tins with a palette knife. Cover with a teaspoon of the apple puree and top with a lid.
7. Sprinkle the tops with caster sugar.
8. Bake just above the centre of the oven, pre-heated to 400°F (mark 6), for about 15 minutes.
9. Leave to cool slightly in the tins, ease out with the palette knife and cool completely on a wire rack.

Serve with cream.