This lovely recipe uses up all those windfall apples. It can be made in minutes and is great if you want something for pudding after tea. A slice with a cup of coffee or tea is just as good. It is best eaten on the day it is made, but okay the next day too. It is scrumptious with custard or Yorkshire cream.

You will need: Large bowl, clean pair of hands, wooden spoon, set of scales, baking tin (either round or square 20cm x 30cm is ideal), a hand whisk. I make this in an oven tray and cut it into slices.

Pre-heat your oven always so that all your cakes and bakes have a good head start when they go into the oven for cooking. For this recipe, you want a moderate heat (180C/ 160C (fan)/350F/GM 4)

Ingredients

110g self-raising flour
110g plain flour
125g chopped butter cold but not hard
300g dark brown sugar
180g peeled and grated fresh apple
160g sultanas (optional; if you don’t like them leave out)
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Teaspoon mixed spice (I add a tip of a tsp of Star Anise powder)
1 large egg
180mls full milk

Method: Grease a rectangular baking tray (it needs to be about two inches deep) and put in some greaseproof paper as the cake is quite gooey.

Place your flours into your bowl with butter and sugar and crumble the mixture until you have what looks like fine breadcrumbs.

Press half this mixture into the prepared tin and push it firmly in place into corners etc.

On top of this, put the grated apple and sultanas, then beat the egg with the milk and bicarbonate of soda spices and add it to the rest of your crumble mixture and pour it over the top of your apple mixture.

Bake in moderate oven for approx 55 minutes. Leave to cool before taking out of the pan. I turn mine upside down with a cooling rack and dust the top (which was your bottom) with icing sugar. The brown sugar caramelises with the apple and flour and it is the most delicious gooey cake/pudding and is lovely served warm with cream or custard, or just cold with a cup of tea or coffee.

• Anita runs Pattacakes, the tearoom, bakery and patisserie at Main Street, Welburn, near Castle Howard.