Bring 450 ml milk to the boil in a saucepan. Stir 50 ml milk with pudding powder and 2 tablespoons of sugar until smooth. Stir into the boiling milk, bring to the boil and simmer for about 1 minute. Remove from the stove, pour into a bowl, cover surface immediately with foil and let cool, put in a cool place.
Cut the soft apricots into small pieces. Mix flour, salt, and 25 g sugar in a large bowl. Add the egg and 75 g butter in flakes. Warm 100 ml of milk lukewarm, crumble yeast into it and dissolve it while stirring.
Pour onto the flour mixture and knead with the dough hooks of the hand mixer for 4-5 minutes to a smooth dough. Knead in the apricots. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes.
Briefly knead the yeast dough again and roll out on a floured work surface until round (26 cm Ø). Put the dough into a greased springform pan (26 cm Ø), dust with flour. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 15 minutes.
Bring 50 g butter, 50 g sugar and honey to the boil in a pot and simmer for about 5 minutes. Stir in cornflakes. Let cool down for about 10 minutes. Spread on the dough and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ circulating air: 150 °C/ gas: see
manufacturer) bake for approx. 25 minutes, take out and let cool on a cake rack.
Drain the apricots, drain well and cut into slices. Soak gelatine in cold water. Whip cream until stiff. Stir the pudding until smooth, dissolve the gelatine in a saucepan and stir in 4 tbsp. pudding, stir into the rest of the pudding.
Fold in cream, carefully fold in apricot slices.
Carefully remove the base from the mould and cut in half horizontally. Place the bottom cake layer on a cake plate and enclose with a cake ring. Spread the pudding cream on top and place the top cake layer on top.
Chill for at least 2 hours.
Chop the chocolate and melt over a warm water bath. Carefully remove the cake from the ring and decorate with chocolate.