Granny Smith Apple Cake with Maple Icing

Name: Granny Smith Apple Cake with Maple Icing
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 180 ml olive oil; 235 g caster sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 5 eggs (3 whole + 2 yolks); 3 egg whites; 1 lemon (zest only); 5 Granny Smith apples, peeled and chopped; 410 g plain flour; 0.75 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 0.5 teaspoon salt; 0.75 teaspoon baking powder; 2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 150 g butter, softened (for icing); 160 g muscovado sugar (for icing); 130 ml maple syrup; 330 ml cream cheese

⏱️ 90 min 👥 Serves 12 📅 22 February 2026

A moist olive oil apple cake packed with peeled Granny Smith apples and spiced with cinnamon, finished with a rich maple and cream cheese icing. Makes one cake — bakes for 1.5 hours.

👩‍🍳 Method

1
Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease and line a 9" cake tin.
2
Mix the olive oil and caster sugar together in a mixer.
3
Add the vanilla extract, then the 3 whole eggs and 2 yolks one at a time, mixing well.
4
Stir in the lemon zest and chopped Granny Smith apples.
5
Sift together the plain flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Fold into the mixture.
6
In a separate bowl, whisk the 3 egg whites to stiff peaks, then stir into the batter.
7
Pour into the prepared tin and bake at 170°C for 1 hour 30 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
8
Make the maple icing: beat the butter and muscovado sugar together until fluffy. Add the maple syrup and mix in. Add the cream cheese and whisk everything together until smooth.
9
Once cool, spread the maple icing over the top and sides of the cake.