Red cabbage cake

The beginning

Tip the red cabbage and apple into a sieve and drain well. Then peel and core the apples, chop into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice. Coarsely chop the walnuts.

Preheat the oven to 170°C (150°C fan).

Ingredients: apples, lemon juice, walnuts,

Mix the batter and add red cabbage, apples and nuts.

Mix flour, bicarbonate of soda, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix sugar, eggs and oil. Add the flour mixture a bit at a time, mixing to incorporate. Then fold in the apple cubes, chopped walnuts and drained red cabbage.

Ingredients: flour, bicarbonate of soda, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, sugar, eggs, oil, apple, walnut, red cabbage

Bake the cake

Thoroughly butter the fluted tube pan. Pour batter into the tin; place the tin on a rack in the middle of the hot oven. Bake the sweet red cabbage cake for about 60 minutes.

Let the cake cool on a cooling rack for about 30 minutes, then remove from the tin.

Prepare the frosting

To prepare the frosting, put all the ingredients (room temperature) in a bowl and mix until smooth and creamy. Refrigerate the frosting for about an hour.

The final touch

When the cake has cooled off, frost the top and sides or only the top.