Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, which means I will be handing one of these cakes over to each of my Nans. Apricot cake just happens to be their favourite Christmas cake and for the past couple of years it has been my Christmas gift to them. Not only is this cake moist and delicious, but it's comprised of simple ingredients. I found this recipe on Rock Recipes which is a blog by a fellow Newfoundlander. I would highly recommend this site to anyone! Some amazing recipes on there.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Water
- ½ cup Sultana Raisins
- 1¼ cup Sugar
- 12 oz Dried Chopped Apricots
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 4 oz Cream Cheese
- 2 ½ cups Flour
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- 4 Eggs
1) In a medium saucepan combine water, raisins, 1/4 cup sugar and dried apricots. Simmer very gently for 30 minutes. Cool completely.
Tip from Rock Recipes: 'I like to boil the fruit a day ahead of baking, allowing the dried fruits to soak up syrup which keeps them moist during baking and in turn assures a moist cake throughout.'
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2) Cream together butter, remaining sugar, vanilla and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add 4 eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
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3) Next, sift together flour and baking powder. Fold half of the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture. Fold in the
cooled boiled apricot mixture, followed by the remaining dry
ingredients.
4) Bake in a greased tube pan or two loaf pans at 350 degrees F
for about an hour or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out
clean. My cake was ready in about 45 minutes, so be sure to monitor your cake as it bakes.
That's it, a little bit of work with a fabulous result! Enjoy everyone!
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DeleteI am a transplanted Newfoundlander looking for my lost recipe for this cake. I would like to share it with some Nova Scotian friends. I can't wait to try this again! I can almost taste it. :) Thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteIs that 12 ounces of apricots by volume or weight?
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Do you add the water with tha apricots or do you drain the fruit before you fold it into the batter?
ReplyDeleteSorry, just seeing this comment. The sugar-water mixture gets absorbed into the apricots and raisins plumping them up as you slowly simmer it all together. The mixture eventually thickens so there's no longer any leftover water to drain.
ReplyDeleteI made this cake for the last few years ; I say after making 15 in total For some reason this cake takes 1.5 hours to bake , every other type of cake takes the allowed time except this recipe
ReplyDeleteI agree , been making this recipe for years and it always takes mine 1hour and 25 min to bake in a tube pan.
ReplyDeleteCan l make this cake with gluten-free selfraising flour
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