Summer Special Apricot Cake

Hello HTS Community

Let’s make an amazing tea cake that is a must in summers. Often so, whenever I but apricots here in Pune, their looks are better than the taste and I choose to use them in a cake. Once baked, they taste sweeter with the perfect amount of tartness. This recipe makes a small tea/coffee cake, which tastes good no matter the type of apricots.

I am using dried apricots today, since they are easily available everywhere, but you can use fresh ones and skip the first step of rehydrating them. To make a vegan or vegetarian version, egg substitutes are mentioned below.

If you like this recipe, also try Carrot cake, Pumpkin bread and cake and Orange cake.

Ingredients you will need:

• Dried apricots- 1 cup
• Neutral tasting oil- 1/2 cup
• Brown sugar- 3/4 cup (you can use regular sugar)
• Eggs- 2 (vegan/vegetarian substitutes below)
• Vanilla extract- 1 teaspoon
• All purpose flour- 1.5 cups
• Baking powder- 1.5 teaspoon
• Salt- 1/4 teaspoon
• Milk- 1/4 cup (substitute with coconut milk)
• Sugar- 2 tablespoons
• Ground cinnamon- 1 teaspoon

Egg substitute:

For each whole egg used, you can substitute it with one of the following:

• 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed+ 2 tablespoon water
• 1/4 cup yogurt

Steps:

• Start with preheating oven at 180 degrees celsius and lining a 9 inch baking pan with parchment paper.
• In a small pan, boil apricots with 1 cup of water in medium heat for about 7 minutes, until apricots are soft. Drain the water, chop apricot pieces roughly and set aside to cool down.

• In a large bowl, whisk together brown sugar, oil and eggs until fluffy and well combined. Mix in vanilla extract and whisk again.
• To this wet batter, add flour, baking powder, salt and start mixing slowly, incorporating milk gradually.

• Fold the chopped apricots into the batter and pour batter in the baking pan.
• In a small bowl combine the raw sugar and ground cinnamon and sprinkle this mixture on top of the cake batter.
• Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees celsius or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Serve warm.