Orange, Apple and Apricot Honey Cake

Name: Orange, Apple and Apricot Honey Cake
Ingredients: 6 oz dried apricots – chopped small, soaked for ½ hour in cold water and drained (175 g); 1 teaspoon baking powder; 4 tablespoons honey; 2 large cooking apples; 4 oz caster sugar (110 g); 3 teaspoons orange essence; 4 eggs – lightly whisked; grated rind of 1 orange (optional); 8 oz butter (225 g); 8 oz self-raising flour (225 g)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

This is a large and deliciously flavoured cake which keeps fresh and moist for several days. You should bake it in one of the loose based cake tins as it tends to stick.

Ingredients

8 oz butter (225 g)
4 tablespoons honey

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Heat oven to Gas 3 (325°F/170°C). Line the bottom of a well greased, loose based 8 in (20 cm) cak