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Lumberjack Cake
We had this cake in a cafe, and some years after searching high and low for a recipe, found it in Womens Weekly Sweet Old Fashioned Favourites.
Ingredients
 | 2 large (400g) apples, finely chopped |
| 1 cup (200g) chopped dates |
| 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda |
| 1 cup boiling water |
| 125g butter |
| 1 teaspoon vanilla essence |
| 1 cup sugar |
| 1 egg |
| 11/2 cups plain flour |
TOPPING
| 60g butter |
| 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed |
| 1/2 cup milk |
| 2/3 cup shredded coconut |
Method
| Grease deep 19cm square cake pan, line base with paper, grease paper. |
| Preheat oven to moderate (180 deg C) |
| Combine apple, dates, soda and water in bowl, cover, stand until warm. |
| Beat butter, essence and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and creamy, add egg, beat until combined. |
| Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in sifted flour alternately with apple mixture. |
| Pour into prepared pan. |
| Bake in moderate oven (180-200) 50 minutes. |
| Spread with topping, bake about further 30 minutes, or until topping is golden brown. Put a tray on the rack below the cake in the oven, as sometimes the topping bubbles over the edge - if your cake tin isn't quite deep enough. |
| Cool cake in pan. |
Topping
| Combine butter, sugar, milk and coconut in pan, stir over low heat until butter is melted and sugar dissolved. |
This a dessert standby in our house. Warm with icecream and cream for dessert, or for afternoon tea in the garden.
I found this recipe at Cookings: https://members.tripod.com/cookings_oz
