Cooking a delicious cake with dried apricots

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Cake with dried apricots, chocolate or prunes - what could be better? Preparing a delicious dessert for the festive table is not so difficult. Later in the article, we will present some interesting recipes for dried apricot cake.

Chocolate cake

To prepare the dessert, we need the following ingredients:

• wheat flour - 100g;
• cocoa - 200 g;
• chicken eggs - 5 pcs;
• granulated sugar - 350 g;
• baking powder;
• cream - 450 ml;
• vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l.;
• s alt;
• dried apricots - 300 g;
• cream cheese - 150 g;
• powdered sugar - 100 g;
• bitter chocolate - 50 g;
• water - 350 ml;
• almond liqueur - 3 tbsp. l.;
• butter - 110 g;
• gelatin powder - 2 tbsp. l.

Now let's start the biscuit:

1. First of all, break the eggs and separate the yolks. We put them in a separate container, add sugar and hot water, whisking the mixture until a thick mass is formed.
2. Pour flour, add cocoa. Mix and sift into a bowlyolks.
3. Add vegetable oil and mix everything very gently.
4. Don't forget about proteins. Add a little s alt to them and beat until fluffy. It is important that the proteins do not settle.
5. We put the dough in a special form.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the dough for about 45 minutes. The readiness of the biscuit can be checked with a wooden torch.
7. Take out the biscuit and let it cool down. It would be nice to let the biscuit rest for 6 hours, but this is not necessary.

Let's take care of dried apricots:

Rinse dried apricots well, fill with water and boil for about 15 minutes. Dried apricots should become soft. Next, using a blender, turn it into puree

• Cooking the syrup. Mix sugar with water, boil. Then pour in the liquor and let it cool.
• Mix cream with powdered sugar, beat until thick, then add cream cheese and beat again - the cream for the cake is ready.

Cut the biscuit into several cakes. We soak each of them with syrup. On each cake we lay out the stuffing from dried apricots. Pour the buttercream on top, which is sprinkled with grated chocolate on top. We spread the cake on top of each other and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Meanwhile preparing the icing:

1. Pour gelatin with water.
2. Melt butter, add cocoa, sugar and cream.
3. Heat the resulting mixture on fire. Sugar should be completely dissolved.
4. Heat the gelatin and add it to the icing.

Covering the cake with dried apricotsthe resulting glaze. The sides must be sprinkled with biscuit crumbs. The top can be decorated as desired. You can make a cake without sugar, the rest of the ingredients will still add a sweetish aftertaste.

Prune cake

To prepare the cake, prepare the following ingredients:

• margarine - 135g;
• eggs - 2 pcs;
• condensed milk - 120 g;
• sugar - 0.5 kg;
• cocoa - 60 g;
• flour - 250 g;
• acetic acid - 15 ml;
• baking soda - 50g;
• sour cream - 500 g;
• prunes - a small handful;
• dried apricots - a small handful;
• bitter chocolate - 200g

Preparing the cake like this:

1. Rinse dried fruits and fill with water.
2. Margarine melt in a pan, then cool and pour into a deep container. Add condensed milk. Mix thoroughly.
3. Mix flour with acetic acid and soda. Stir and add to butter mixture. Do this with a whisk or fork. Break the eggs in there. You should get a thick mass.
4. Cut the dough into three pieces. Sprinkle one with cocoa, knead thoroughly.
5. Roll each piece of dough into a thin cake and bake in turn in a preheated oven on a baking sheet, which must first be greased with oil, for about 30 minutes.
6. Let the cakes cool down. At this time, let the dried fruits dry.
7. Melt the chocolate and dip the prunes into it. A few pieces of prunes and dried apricots cut intosmall cubes.

Preparing the cream. Mix sour cream with sugar, beat.

Finishing the cake with dried apricots and prunes. Laying out the cakes:

• First, white is smeared with cream, put pieces of dried apricots and prunes on top.
• Then the brown cake is laid out, also smeared.
• After you need to hoist a white cake again.
• We smear everything with cream.
• If desired, the surface of the cake can be sprinkled with chocolate chips, and prunes in white chocolate can be placed in the middle.

Cooking a cake in a pan

Don't be upset if you don't have an oven, because the cake can also be cooked in a frying pan. Cakes should be baked strictly in a clean preheated bowl on one side and the other until golden brown. In all other respects, the process of making a cake with dried apricots is no different.

Tips and points of interest

To create a design or inscription on the surface of the cake, melt the chocolate in a water bath and use a cone to extrude the chocolate mass. You can also create an inscription using a standard clean syringe without a needle.

To make the cake with dried apricots softer, leave it overnight so that the cream soaks the cakes.