Description
This is to die for and tastes like a finger bun, best served with lashings of butter… oh god my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Now the best news – it is so easy to make and I promise you can do it. I do my dough in the bread maker.
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups water
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons milk powder
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup pie apples chopped (from tin)
4 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoons yeast (instant – I use the Lowan yeast)
Icing:
Make a buttercream icing using a fair bit of butter, icing sugar, boiling water, some strawberry jelly crystals for flavouring and a small amount of pink food dye
Instructions
Add all ingredients into the bread maker
Select “dough” cycle and press start
Once dough cycle is finished it is good to leave it in the bread maker for about 30 minutes
Remove dough and place on a floured surface
Divide into 3 equal pieces and create 3 long tubes of dough by squeezing each piece of dough – these should be around 40-50cm long
Join the 3 ends together and plait the tubes as you would plait hair
Push some extra chopped pie apple into the teacake and bake at 190-200 degrees C for about 20 minutes – baking time may vary depending on your oven, fan forced may not take as long
Remove cooked teacake – it should be golden brown but not too dark
Make a sugar syrup – about 3 tablespoons of sugar in a small amount of boiling water and brush the teacake with the sugar syrup
Allow to cool and top with strawberry icing using a piping bag
