Tea Time Apple Spice Cake

I found this cake one day while I was looking for something to make with apples, but I have changed the recipe slightly since.
(source: http://nzfavouriterecipe.co.nz/recipes/desserts/228-tea-time-apple-spice-cake)
It's a really moist and delicious cake, as well as being one of the easiest cakes I have ever made because you basically make it all in one bowl.
One of my favourite cakes of all time.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 large Granny Smith Apples (you can actually use whatever apples you like and put more in, like 3 or 4 especially if they are small).
• 1 cup of sugar
• Milk
• 100g butter
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp cinnamon (put more in if you like, I always do, all of the spice measurements are just suggestions)
• 1 tsp of nutmeg
• 1 - 2 tsp allspice
• 1 - 2 tsp ginger

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Line tin with baking paper.
3. Peel and thinly slice or dice apples and place in a mixing bowl.
4. Sprinkle sugar over apple.
5. Melt butter and beat egg into it (you should wait for the butter to cool down a little bit and then whisk the egg in fast, don't let it go stone cold or something weird happens when you pour the egg in.)
6. Pour butter mixture over apple (I recommend doing this as soon as you have mixed the egg and butter).
7. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice to the mixture.
8. Mix well
9. If too dry add milk (I always have to add milk when I make it), mixture should be quite moist.
10. Bake for 1 hour at 180C or until cake is golden

ICING (sorry this isn't very specific):

• Butter
• Icing sugar
• Hot water
• Vanilla essence

Put some butter in a heatproof bowl, like a couple of tablespoons.
Pour some hot water over the butter, stir until it melts.
Add a teaspoon or so of vanilla essence.
Add icing sugar until icing is a still a little runny but not so runny that it will soak into the cake.
Drizzle onto cake.

Serve alone or with ice-cream or cream

SERVES: 6 -8
COOKING TIME: 50 - 60 minutes
PREP TIME: 12 minutes