Apricot Pecan Cake
From peetabear 17 years ago
- 70 minutes to make
- Serves 12
The serving size is just an rough guess.. the recipe says 24 but that is very skimpy pieces of cake.!!! you can make this ahead of time up to a week, but don't put the glaze on until the day your are going to serve it. Read more .it does taste better if you make it a day or two ahead of when you need it so the flavors meld. this recipe is of unknown origin See less
Ingredients
- 1 pound dried apricot halves ( 2 & 1/2 cups) cut into 1/2-inch pieces shopping list
- 2 cups coarsely chopped pecans shopping list
- 2/3 cups pecan halves shopping list
- 2 cups flour plus 1 TBSP. flour shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups sugar shopping list
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks) softened 5 large eggs shopping list
- 1/2 cup brandy...(could try peach or apricot as a change) shopping list
- 1 TBSP. vanilla shopping list
- 2 teasp. baking powder shopping list
- 1 teasp. salt shopping list
- 1/3 cups apricot preserves, melted and strained shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 325" F
- grease 9-inch tube pan
- in medium bowl toss apricots and 2 cups chopped pecans with the 1 TBSP. flour....set aside
- in large mixing bowl..beat sugar and butter at low speed until blended
- increase speed to high ,beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes
- scrape down the sides of the bowl often
- with mixer at low speed....add eggs, brandy, vanilla, baking powder, salt and 2 cups flour.
- beat until well blended
- stir in apricot and nut mixture
- spoon batter into pan.
- arrange the pecan haves around the top in 2 concentric circles
- bake cake for 1 hour and 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes
- or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
- cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes
- with knife, loosen cake from pan....remove cake
- cool completely on wire rack
- when cold brush cake with the melted apricot preserves
- or wrap and refrigerate for up to a week....then brush the melted apricot preserves before serving
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Peeta this sounds absolutely delicious, thanks, bookmarked!
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Very nice recipe, Peeta! Know it is delicious! Love the combination of apricots and pecans.
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