Heavenly Honey And Apricot Almond Cake Recipes

HONEY-CARAMEL TART WITH APRICOTS AND ALMONDS

Steps:

• For crust:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk both flours and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter, brown sugar, honey, and lemon peel in another medium bowl to blend. Beat in egg. Add flour mixture; beat just to blend. Gather dough into ball. Roll out on floured surface to 1/4-inch-thick round. Transfer to 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Press onto bottom and up sides of pan. Trim edges. Press edges so sides rise 1/4 inch above pan. Bake crust until golden brown, pressing with back of fork if bubbles form, about 13 minutes. Cool on rack.
• For caramel-nut filling:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Bring both sugars, butter, and honey to boil in heavy medium saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugars. Boil 1 minute without stirring; remove from heat. Stir in cherries, apricots, almonds, cranberries, and whipping cream. Transfer filling to cooled crust. Arrange apricot halves, cut side down, atop filling.
• Bake tart until bubbling all over, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Cool on rack 15 minutes. Remove pan sides. Cool to lukewarm, about 1 hour.
• Using electric mixer, beat cream until peaks form. Add crème fraîche and beat until peaks form. Serve tart slightly warm or at room temperature with crème fraîche.

HEAVENLY HONEY AND APRICOT ALMOND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray a 10 inch springform pan with non stick cooking spray or lightly coat with vegetable oil.
• Make fruit layer for the cake by mixing together the first 4 ingredients.
• Then sprinkle the flour over the fruit and stir a few times to blend.
• In a large bowl, mix honey, oil, arrowroot slurry and vanilla.
• In a small bowl, combine the flours, ground almond, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• Sift flour mixture into the honey mixture and stir to blend.
• Pour slightly less than half of the batter into the prepared pan and spread it evenly.
• Spoon the fruit mixture evenly over the batter and then cover with the remaining batter.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Cover the pan with tin foil and bake another 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out cleanly.
• Cook cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing the sides.
• Cool cake completely before slicing.

FRESH APRICOT-HONEY SPONGE CAKE (RUSSIAN STYLE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch cake pan with butter, and dust with bread crumbs; set aside.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the sliced apricots, and drizzle with honey. Cover, and cook gently until the apricots have softened, then allow to cool to room temperature.
• Meanwhile, beat the egg whites to soft peaks with an electric mixer. Slowly pour in sugar while continuing to beat to stiff peaks; set aside.
• Beat the egg yolks on low speed for a few seconds until slightly thickened. Slowly pour in sugar while continuing to beat until thickened and light-colored. Beat in milk, then sift together flour with baking powder, and fold into yolks along with cooled apricot mixture, walnuts, and egg whites until combined.
• Pour into prepared pan, and bake in the middle or bottom of the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Loosen the cake by running a knife around the edges of the pan. Invert cake onto a plate, then place another plate on the cake bottom, and flip right-side-up; cool completely before serving.

APRICOT HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, soak the apricots in the rum for at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350° and grease a 10- by 5-inch loaf pan.
• In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk. Stir in the honey, vegetable oil, grated lemon and orange rind and juice, sugar, salt, and apricot jam.
• Sift the 2 flours and the baking soda into another bowl.
• Strain the apricots, reserving the excess rum.
• Add the flour alternately with the rum to the honey cake mixture. Fold in the apricots. Scoop the batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle with the nuts.
• Bake in the oven on the lower rack for 50-55 minutes, or until the center of the cake is firm when you pres sit. Remove from the oven and cool on a rack.