I love trying new recipes but I always get a bit nervous it won’t turn out. But I do know that once you’ve made something once you’ll make it again. And again. And I do have a habit of making my favourites too often. Retro daddy prefers a bit of variety. On Friday I made Apricot cake, yes from that book, and it was such a big cake it was perfect for the weekend, for family who dropped in and for grandma betty who stayed with us.
It was easy to make, very economical making a huge rectangle of a cake and most importantly – delicious. Very buttery, just how I like it. Now one of my lovely facebook readers said to coat your apricots in flour and they won’t sink too much. Ahhhh that just might do the trick. I could rename my cake ‘find the apricot’ cake. I think a generous dusting of icing sugar would pretty this cake up but I wanted to photograph it so I could get stuck in and share it with the twinnies.
Next time I’ll have the icing sugar on hand and maybe just maybe a little dollop of cream. Just for a little treat. I also think this would be perfect with a big scoop of icecream for a family dessert.
Hahaha, I love the “find the apricot cake”! I make cake with cherries or strawberries and they also sink. I just might use that trick with flour. Thanx a lot!
Yum , that looks like a perfect weekend cake. I am off to search through my cookbooks for something similar
That looks very yummy! I think I’ll give it a go this week. Perfect for this weather.
I’ve never heard of that hint referring to tinned fruit..only to dried fruit that are being mixed in to the batter. The cake looks very moreish..especially with a dollop of whipped cream!
Hmmmm, yum!!!! Look delish! I know my Mum coats her mixed fruit for her Christmas cake so it won’t sink. Sunk or not I bet this was scrummy and always so good to have a cake that can feed numerous people too!!
YUM!! that looks so good – and yes, definitely some vanilla ice cream (while the cake is still warm)…did I mention YUM!!!
xxxCate
Yes – icecream and cream – I have so many tins of pears here at the moment – maybe I should make something similar.
Yum, I love cake and I love apricots and I love playing hide and seek so this sounds perfect for me!!
Haha I was just thinking that this would be awesome with some ice cream too! 😀 Yum!
The Apricot Cake looks soooo good.
I might just have to google apricot cake!
Jacqueline