Easy as apple cake

Cake is good. Cake with berries and ice-cream is even better. A cake that's good for you with local berries and organic ice-cream makes my heart just sing! So here's how you make the divine-alicious apple cake above. (Recipe adapted from Wholefood by the amazing Jude Blereau.)

Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees. Core, peel and finely slice 5 organic Granny Smith apples, toss in a bowl with zest and juice of one lemon. In another bowl, combine 85g oatmeal, 85g wholemeal spelt flour and 2 tspns baking powder. In another bowl (preferably attached to a KitchenAid, otherwise use electric beaters), whisk 200g raw or rapadura sugar and 3 eggs until creamy and thick. Slowly pour in 120g melted butter and flour mixture, beat gently until flour is incorporated and set aside for 5 minutes. Add 100ml organic milk (or less if the mixture gets too thin) and 1 tspn natural vanilla extract.

Discard juice from apples. Place 1/3 of cake mix into baking paper-lined 24cm cake tin, top with 1/3 of apples and continue until mix and apples are all in. Make a pretty pattern with the apples on top if you wish. Top with a small handful of crushed walnuts and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Bake for 1hr, 20 mins, remove when knife in centre comes out clean. Let it cool on a wire rack, invite friends around if they're really worth it (or they have a good sticky) and enjoy amigos!