Gateau aux Raisins et Fruits Confits d’Apt

Name: Gateau aux Raisins et Fruits Confits d’Apt (Grape Cake with Glacé Fruit from Apt)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: pinch of salt; 2 level tsp/10 ml baking powder; rum; 7 oz/200 g plain white flour; 7 oz/200 g Muscat grapes or black cherries (stoned/pited); 7 oz/200 g Muscat grapes or black cherries (stoned/pited); 2 tbsp/30 ml milk; sliced (not diced) glace fruit for decoration; 2 tsp/10 ml vanilla extract; 2 eggs; 5 oz/150 g caster sugar; 5 fl oz/150 ml olive oil

Grape Cake with Glacé Fruit from Apt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in Provence

By Leslie Forbes

Published 1987

About

The glacé fruit from Apt is now more commercialized than in Monsieur Pin’s day, and not so precious as that from Nice’s Auer shop. It is better used to decorate baked goods, as in this moist fruit cake from the lovely Lubéron town of Ménerbes.

Ingredients

7 oz/200 g Muscat grapes or black cherries (stoned/pited)
rum
7

Europe
France
Gordes
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Provence

Method

Put the grapes and rum in a bowl and leave for 1 hour to marinate. Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C/ gas 4. Grease a 7-8 in/18-20