Recipe

Moist apple walnut slice with maple syrup icing

  • 40 mins cooking
  • Serves 18
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Ingredients

Moist apple walnut slice with maple syrup icing
  • 3 (450g) apples, peeled, coarsely grated
  • 1 cup (150g) potato flour
  • 3/4 cup (120g) brown rice flour
  • 1/4 cup (30g) ground walnuts
  • 1 cup (220g) caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 4 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup (250ml) vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup (55g) coarsely chopped walnuts
  • 1 1/2 cup (240g) pure icing sugar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoon hot water
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup

Method

Moist apple walnut slice with maple syrup icing
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease a 19cm x 30cm lamington pan; line base with baking paper, extending paper 5cm over two long sides.
  • 2
    Sift dry ingredients into large bowl; stir in apple, eggs and oil. Pour mixture into pan and bake about 40 minutes. Stand slice in pan 10 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
  • 3
    To make maple syrup icing, sift icing sugar into small bowl; stir in the hot water and maple syrup.
  • 4
    Spread slice with icing and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

Notes

To ground walnuts, blend or process until fine.