Sugar Free Apple Cake

On very rare occasions, normally when the quantum flux permits and the oven agrees to function nicely, the Quirky Muffin fulfils part of its original remit and actually does a little baking! This time, we have an adapted apple cake recipe from the original found at www.cooks.com. (http://www.cooks.com/recipe/fw1xn3vn/sugar-free-apple-cake.html) It's not exactly a sugar free cake, as it does feature more than half a jar of honey, but it works! The main substitution from the original is ground nut (peanut) oil for sunflower oil, and the complete omission of pecans. It also took more than twice as long to cook as the original indicated, but it's really really nice!

----

1 cup honey
1 cup ground nut oil
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups chopped apples
3/4 cup raisins
3 cup wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon mace
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

01 Combine first the wet ingredients (sans vanilla) and mix for at least three minutes.
02 Add the vanilla and stir.
93 Sift dry ingredients together and gradually beat into 1st mixture.
04 Add apples, pecans and raisins with a spoon.
05 Pour into a cake tin and bake at 160C or 325F for roughly two hours.
06 Check every half hour to see if it might already be cooked.

----

Now, let's get back to normal business, which is complete gibberish alternating with stories, reviews and fanciful words about nothing at all. It seems that I need the freedom of extremely long bus journeys to write well!

O.