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A summer celebration: apricot cake

What does home taste like? Well, many people may recognize home in various tastes (after all, we all grew up in different homes :) ). For me, two weeks ago, it was this cake’s taste exactly.

Apricots

Summer is here in all its glory, and the heat everywhere simply calls for light and refreshing dishes. In my book refreshing is anything fruity, and these past weeks the fruit I craved most was apricot. I’ve been wanting to make something apricot but couldn’t set my mind on what exactly (if you are a regular reader, you’ve probably noticed that making up my mind about stuff is not my strongest quality), and was afraid that I wouldn’t get to it, considering the very short apricot season here. I saw so many tempting apricot posts among the various food blogs I’m reading, and finally I gave in. That’s what urges are for, isn’t it?!

Apricot Cake

This simple cake turned out really great, I’m so keeping the base recipe for any white cake I need next. It’s really moist and filled with wonderful flavors. The vanillated sugar helps sweetening the apricots, which tend to turn quite sour after baking. Try to pick the ripest apricots you can for this cake, the riper the are - the sweeter they’ll be in the cake.

Apricot Cake

The recipe calls for self raising flour, if you don’t have it, you can use regular flour, and for each cup of flour, add 1 tsp of baking powder. In this case, for example, we need 350 gr flour, which is 2.5 cups, so we need to add in 2.5 tsp of baking powder and Ta-Da - we have “home made” self raising flour :)

Apricot Cake / Slightly adapted from Benny Seida’s recipe
For a rectangular 27X33 cm pan

Ingredients:
350 gr self raising flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
the zest of half of a medium sized lemon
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk
800 gr apricots, pitted and halved
20 gr vanillated sugar
200 ml sour cream

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 356F (180C).
2. Put all the ingredients except the flour, apricots and vanillated sugar. Whisk well for several minutes, until the mixture is uniform.
3. Add the flour and mix only until incorporated.
4. Pour the mixture into the oiled pan, arrange the apricot halves keeping them close to eachother, the round side up.
5. Sprinkle the vanillated sugar above the apricots, and bake for an hour approx. or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out with moist crumbs on it.

Apricot Cake

עוגת משמשים בחושה / בני סיידא בעיבוד קל שלי
עבור תבנית מלבנית בגודל 27X33 ס”מ


רכיבים:
350 גרם קמח תופח
1 1/2 כוסות סוכר
4 ביצים
גרידה מחצי לימון בגודל בינוני
3/4 כוס שמן
1/2 כוס חלב
800 גר’ משמשים טריים, מגולענים וחצויים
20 גרם (2 שקיות) סוכר וניל
200 מ”ל (גביע) שמנת חמוצה

הכנה:
1. מחממים תנור ל-180 מעלות.
2. שמים בקערה את כל החומרים פרט לקמח, משמשים וסוכר הוניל וטורפים מספר דקות, עד לקבלת תערובת אחידה.
3. מוסיפים פנימה את הקמח ומערבבים רק עד לקבלת תערובת אחידה.
4. יוצקים את הבצק לתבנית משומנת ומסדרים עליו את חצאי המשמש בצפיפות, כשחלקם הקעור כלפי מעלה.
5. זורים מעל המשמשים את סוכר הוניל ואופים במשך שעה, או עד שקיסם המוחדר למרכז העוגה יוצא עם פירורים לחים.