Gennaro Contaldo served up a delicious torta di mele (Italian apple cake) on Steph’s Packed Lunch.

The ingredients are: 3 eating apples, any type you have at home, 1 lemon, zested and juiced, 150g caster sugar, 2 large free-range eggs, 1tsp vanilla extract, 50ml sunflower or vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing, 200g plain flour, sifted, 16g baking powder, 200ml natural yogurt, 2tsp icing sugar and 1tsp ground cinnamon.

To serve: Mascarpone cream, double cream or custard.

See recipes by Gennaro in his book titled: Gennaro’s Cucina: A cookbook of classic Italian recipes that help to budget during a cost-of-living crisis available from Amazon now.