Easy Apricot Cake - Real Recipes from Mums

This Easy Apricot Cake is bursting with flavour and is really easy to prepare. Try this today and serve with cream or ice cream … it’s bound to become a family favourite.

Ingredients (makes 1 9” cake)

800grams Fresh apricots
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
115 grams Butter , room temperature
3/4 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
4 Eggs
250 grams Plain flour
3 teaspoons Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Method

Pre heat oven to 180 deg. Grease a 9 inch springform cake tin
In a blender, purée half the apricots with lemon juice.. set aside
Quarter remaining apricots and set aside
Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs , one at a time mixing well. Then add vanilla and mix well
In a small bowl combine flour, baking powder , salt and cinnamon
Add to egg mixture and mix until just combined
Add puréed apricots to batter and mix until combined
Pour batter into prepared tin. Distribute remaining apricots evenly over the top of the batter.
Bake 55-60 minutes until skewer inserted into cake comes out clean Serve sprinkled with icing sugar

This Easy Apricot Cake is good cold with a tea or coffee or served with cream or ice cream as a dessert.

35 Comments

- - sharlene_connors said
  - 23 Sep 2024
    4:22 pm
what a great recipe this will be on my list for my next bake! Thank u

- - meedee said
  - 31 Mar 2023
    1:33 pm
Yum…..perfect with some french vanilla ice cream and a little custard

- - smart_ass said
  - 31 May 2021
    5:41 pm
this looks beautiful

- - mom169742 said
  - 11 Jan 2021
    10:09 pm
Mmm,yummy,looks delicious, thank you for sharing, I must try this!!

- - cherz said
  - 28 Sep 2019
    5:16 pm
Wow this looks really impressive and tasty. Yumm. Thanks for sharing.

- - mom371543 said
  - 02 Sep 2019
    2:47 pm
This looks perfect for a spring afternoon tea

- - youngoldlady said
  - 30 Aug 2019
    6:05 pm
Thank you for providing this delightful recipe. it will be a lovely change.

- - nadine_hill said
  - 01 Aug 2019
    7:49 am
This looks delicious! It will make a nice change from Orange or Lemon cake – can’t wait to try it!

- - mom62624 said
  - 14 Jul 2019
    7:22 am
So beautiful to make and share, thanks.

- - mom129591 said
  - 09 Jul 2019
    9:42 pm
What a different looking and sounding recipe! Apricots are great to work with in dishes. A really good recipe. Thank you

- - mom81879 said
  - 05 May 2019
    10:36 am
Looks so good! I’m thinking warm with whipped cream. Mmmmm, love apricots

- - happymum2018 said
  - 03 May 2019
    5:53 pm
This would be delicois with chantilly cream thanks

- - youngoldlady said
  - 01 May 2019
    6:32 pm
This seems like a very yummy cake to be making and eating.

- - mom343701 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    9:55 pm
this would be yummy with custard

- - mom112023 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    6:26 pm
Awesome. Thanks for the recipe.

- - rovermum said
  - 29 Apr 2019
    9:03 am
Well, this is an idea. My mum has an apricot tree with too many apricots and not a lot of ideas of what to do this them. This is a good one.
- Mum2archer replied
  
  30 Apr 2019 , 3:36 pm
  YUM! No such thing as too many apricots lol
- - mom19782016 said
  - 28 Apr 2019
    8:27 am
Oh yum! This would be perfect for afternoon tea!

- - BellaB said
  - 27 Apr 2019
    7:31 pm
That’s an unusual cake recipe – thanks!

- - teegsmrstee said
  - 26 Apr 2019
    8:04 pm
Looks like a beautiful cake to try!

- - ella12 said
  - 26 Apr 2019
    12:25 pm
This looks rather lovely, thank you.