Apricot cake – prajitura cu caise (sau visine, prune, mere)
This is a very common cake here which can be done using apricots, peaches, apples, cherries, sour cherries (most common), bilberries, etc. mostly fresh. It’s quite simple to make but it has a few tricks.
Updated: 15-08-2008: the bilberry cake photo
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tbs baking powder
- 1/2 cup oil or melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 kg fresh fruits with no kernel if it applies to the fruit type
Preparation
- remove the fruits kernel if it’s the case (this is the most time consuming operation, especially for the sour cherries)
- separate the egg whites and beat them until solid
- add the sugar, egg yolks, milk
- mix the flour with the baking powder and add to the composition while mixing it
- add the butter and the vanilla extract
- let it rest for 10 minutes while you preheat the oven
- mix the fruits with a bit of flour, this will help the fruits to leave too much liquid and keep part of the composition uncooked
- pour the composition in a pan then add the fruits on top, don’t press them into the dough, they will fall by themselfs
- cook for 30 – 45 minutes
- be careful when you test the readiness to test around the fruits. As they cook they tend to leave juice which will slow the cooking of the dough around.
- enjoy
Comments:
Tanya Kates -
You don’t have the temp. to heat the oven at in the recipe. Also, I’m trying it with Apple sauce in place of Butter or oil. I have tried this in other cakes and it turned out just fine.
We will see how it turns out.
Thank you
Len -
I have a gas oven with no heat setting. It leaves some place for variations :)