A quick home-made cake is sometimes the best way to welcome a friend or make an ordinary day into something special.

This a moist cake that is good cold and also warm with some custard or cream.  This is a good way to include more fruit in your diet without noticing.  Almonds provide a good source of calcium and iron.

Cooks Know How: Creaming together the fat and sugar incorporates air into the mixture.  This air creates the lightness when the cake mixture is cooked. Eggs enrich the cake with iron from the yolk and protein at the same time as helping to trap more air.  Once those ingredients have been beaten, either by hand or using the electric mixer, the rest of the ingredients can be stirred in.  Self Raising flour will add further raising agents so your cake will be light.  The apples pack this cake with fruit whilst the banana and almonds add energy. As you bake this cake the fats melt, the sugar dissolves and the eggs set.  The cake becomes firm and the crust turns golden.  The Demerara sugar crystals sprinkled on top add that extra crunch and completes the cake.  No further icing or decoration is required.  The almonds help the cake to keep moist and therefore this cake can be made in advance but is best popped into the oven to warm it through.