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Lumberjack Cake
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Lumberjack Cake

4.8
25 mins
1 hours 10 mins
Easy
8

A lumberjack cake is a moist apple, date cake with a delicious coconut topping. Yum!

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  • Ingredients
  • Method

Ingredients

  • 2 apple large peeled cored finely chopped cored
  • 1 cup dates chopped
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 125 g soft butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 cup Chelsea Caster Sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 ½ cup plain flour
  • Topping
  • 60 g butter
  • ½ cup Chelsea Brown Sugar
  • ½ cup milk
  • ⅔ cup shredded coconut

Chelsea Products in Recipe

Soft Brown Sugar

Soft Brown Sugar

This popular sugar is used...
Caster Sugar

Caster Sugar

The fine crystal of Chelsea...
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Method

Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line a deep 23 cm square cake pan.
Combine apples, dates and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl.
Add the water and leave for 10 minutes.
Beat butter, sugar, vanilla, and egg until light and fluffy.
Add butter to apple mixture and fold in flour.
Pour into prepared pan and bake in moderate oven for 50 minutes.
Topping: Combine ingredients in a saucepan and stir until butter melts and sugar dissolves.
Remove cake from oven and carefully spoon topping mixture over cake. Return to oven and bake for another 20 minutes.
Stand cake for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack.
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