Sly cakes

Sly cake Ingredients:

450g/1lb ready-to-roll puff pastry

2 cooking apples

50g/2oz butter

50g/2oz muscovado sugar

225g/8oz sultanas

50g/2oz mixed peel

2 teaspoons ground allspice

1 egg yolk, beaten

icing sugar, to dust

Sly Cooking Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6. Lightly grease a non-stick baking tray.

Roll out the puff pastry to a thickness of 1cm/¹⁄2in, then trim and cut into 2 equal rectangles. Put one on the baking tray.

Peel, core and dice the apple. Fry in the butter. When golden and starting to soften, add the muscovado sugar and toss to coat. Remove from the heat and stir in the sultanas, mixed peel and allspice.

Spread the mixture onto the pastry rectangle on the baking tray. Put the
other rectangle on top, and press down lightly. Divide into 16 squares
with a sharp knife, pressing nearly all the way through, and brush the

tops with egg yolk.

Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar.