This cake is made with mayonnaise, making it a dairy free cake.

Ingredients

• 1 cup wholemeal flour
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp ground mixed spice
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 2 medium apples
• 2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Topping

• 1/2 cup pecan nuts
• 2 tblsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Method

1. Sift flours, baking soda and mixed spice into a bowl. Return husks to bowl. Add raisins. Cut apples in half remove cores. Chop 1 ½ apples up roughly and add to flour mixture.
2. Beat sugar, eggs, mayonnaise and vanilla essence together. Fold into apple mixture. Pour into a greased, base-lined 20cm ring tin.
3. Slice remaining half apple and press slices into the cake mixture. Scatter pecan nuts over cake with brown sugar and cinnamon. Bake at 160 degrees C for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean. Cool in tin.