French Apple Sponge Cake

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Ingredients
•170g Butter
•4 Eggs
•170g Icing sugar
•60g Apricots jam
•165g Flour
•½ packet Baking powder
•at least 4 Apples (Granny)
•4 tablespoons Calvados (apple liqueur)

i have substituted the liqueur and jam for honey and used normal sugar as i have no icing.. lol

Method Peel the apples and remove the hearts
Cut them into cubes.

Put the butter, the icing sugar, the calvados and the jam into a big bowl. Beat together with a wooden spoon and add the eggs one by one.

Add the flour, the baking powder and the apples. Beat the mixture.

let the dough stand 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 210°C.

Grease and line the base of a rectangular cake tin.

Put mixture in the cake tin.

Bake for about 5 minutes at 210°C and then 40 minutes at 150°C.

Take out of the oven and leave to cool before removing form the tin.

This cake is great served with a generous spoon of creme fraiche.