Apple Strudel

• Ingredients

• 6 apples, peeled, cored and chopped

• 100g caster sugarfreshly grated nutmeg, to taste

• 55g raisins

• 6-8 sheets ready-made filo pastry

• 55g butter, melted and cooled
  
  
  

• Recipe

• Heat oven to 190C.

• Place apples, nutmeg, raisins and sugar in a bowl and mix well.

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• Brush each sheet of filo pastry with butter and lay them on top of each other.
  

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• Spoon the apple mixture down the side of the filo pastry.

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  Carefully roll up the pastry and place onto a lined tray then into the oven for 30 to 40 minutes.

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Walnut and Orange cake

Ingredients

100g butter
100g brown sugar
2 eggs
5g baking powder
12g black treacle
100g plain flour
1g mixed spice
100ml strong tea
1 oragnge (grated rind and juice)
150g walnuts (chopped)
150g raisins

Recipe

Soak the raisins in strong tea and peel the walnuts

Preheat the oven to 180C

Beat the butter and sugar together then add eggs one at a time.

Add the treacle, mixed spice, flour, baking powder, orange zest, walnuts and raisins.

Add the orange juice last, only little at a time to avoid a watery consistency.

Transfer into baking tins and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes.