Apple and Blackberry Traybake with Sweet Geranium Sugar

You’ll find yourself reaching for this recipe over and over again. Here I use apples and blackberries with sweet geranium, but I also love it with green gooseberries and elderflower, or plums.

Apple and Blackberry Traybake with Sweet Geranium Sugar

SERVES

10

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

40

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

50

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 8–12 lemon geranium leaves (Pelargonium graveolens)

  • 3–4 cooking apples, such as Bramley Seedling or Grenadier

  • 150g blackberries

  • 25g caster sugar

  • crème fraîche or softly whipped cream, to serve

  • For the sponge base:

  • 225g softened butter

  • 175g caster sugar

  • 275g self-raising flour

  • 4 organic, free-range eggs

  • Sweet Geranium Sugar:

  • 2-4 sweet geranium leaves

  • 50g caster sugar

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