Serves 8 Prep time: 15 mins Cooking time: 1 hour Ingredients For the cake: 175g: unsalted butter, soft, diced, plus more for the tin 150g: self-raising flour 1 tsp: baking powder 75g: ground almonds 3 eggs, lightly beaten 175g: golden caster sugar finely grated zest and juice of 1 large lemon 1 tsp: almond extract (optional) 250g: ripe apricots, stoned and sliced To decorate: 100g: golden caster sugar 2 squeezes of lemon juice 4 apricots, halved 3 tbsp: apricot jam icing sugar, to dust Preparation 1. Preheat the oven to 170C. 2. Butter a 20cm round cake tin and line with parchment. 3. Sift flour and baking powder in a bowl. Beat in all ingredients, except apricots. You could use a food processor or a bowl and an electric whisk. Do not over mix. 4. Spoon half cake batter into prepared tin, level it and sprinkle apricots over cake. Spoon remaining mixture over top and level the batter. Bake for an hour or until the centre springs back to the touch. Leave in tin for a few minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool. Remove parchment papers. 5. To decorate, bring 600ml water and caster sugar to a simmer and add a squeeze of lemon juice. Add apricots and simmer for a few minutes. Remove from syrup, dry on kitchen towel and cool. Place on top of cooled cake. 6. Warm apricot jam, then sieve. Place into a clean pan, add a squeeze of lemon juice and brush over apricots. Dust with icing sugar and serve with cream if desired.
GMT 10:01 2018 Monday ,22 January
Cheese balls – a tasty treatGMT 07:36 2017 Monday ,23 October
A template to make rice pudding your wayGMT 10:05 2017 Monday ,31 July
Oman dining: Saucy, creamy add-onsGMT 13:36 2017 Monday ,08 May
Trade exhibition to focusGMT 18:21 2017 Sunday ,07 May
Food poisoned?GMT 16:03 2017 Friday ,05 May
Ban on Omani foodsGMT 08:33 2017 Thursday ,23 March
Tuna & tomato pasta bakeGMT 20:15 2017 Tuesday ,14 March
One ingredient five ways: BasilMaintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©
Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©
Send your comments
Your comment as a visitor