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[The Dogmother]

We had this one at work yesterday; made by the MiL of one of the blokes... makes a change from me making all the cakes! It was delicious, it has a sort of sunken, squidgy centre that is just divine.

 

This can be eaten as a cake at teatime or as a pudding served warm or cold with custard or cream. You can freeze it by wrapping in cling film and then foil once it has cooled. Unwrap and thaw in a cool place for 4-5 hours.

 

200g softened butter, plus extra for the tin

200g caster sugar

200g SR flour

1 tsp baking powder

4 large eggs

1/2 - 1 tsp almond essence (optional) I used the maximum amount

410g can apricot halves in natural juice, 100g roughly chopped, remainder halved

85 g ratafia or Amaretti biscuits (keep ratafia whole or break the Amaretti) I used Amaretti

25g flaked almonds

 

1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter the base and sides of a 22cm loose-bottomed cake tin and line with baking parchment

 

2. Put butter, sugar, flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl. Break in the eggs, add the almond essence, if using, then beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Set aside a quarter of the mixture, then stir the chopped apricots and 25g of the biscuits into the remainder. Spoon into the tin and lightly smooth with the back of a spoon. Bake for 25 minutes until the cake is almost set (mine doesn't take as long as this). Meanwhile stir the apricot halves, remaining biscuits and flaked almonds into the reserved cake mixture until well mixed. Quickly dot the extra cake mixture onto the part-baked cake, then return to the oven for 20 minutes more or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. I smooth it over a bit and mine is usually cooked before time.

 

3. Enjoy!!

[chickencam]

Sounds right up my alley, I love apricots

[Egluntyne]

Cor! sounds fab. If only it were gluten free!

[The Dogmother]

You could try making it with ground almonds instead of the flour I guess. Not sure how it'd turn out but I have another recipe which uses ground almonds instead of flour.

[bluekarin]

That sounds lovely, and different! I get so bored of baking the same old cakes week in week out. Must try this one, thank you

[Lavenders_Blue]

Yummy yummy, sounds heavenly!

[Sheilaz]

Clare, I was just going to click on the Healthy Eating chat topic when I saw this title, who could resist?!

Sounds delicious, my favourite ingredients, I shall be making this tomorrow, thanks.

..........edited later to say; no I won't, my cooker's broken, I keep forgetting. Hopefully being fixed this week though, I shall test it out with this recipe, yum!