Apricot butter cake with cornflakes crust

AUTHOR
Reed Chan
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 600 ml Milk
  • 1 package Pudding powder "Vanilla Flavor"
  • 2 TABLESPOONS 75 g sugar
  • 100 g Soft Apricots
  • 275 g Flour
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 125 g soft butter
  • 1/2 cube (21 g) Yeast
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Honey
  • 50 g Cornflakes
  • 1 can(s) (425 ml) Apricots
  • 6 sheets Gelatine
  • 250 g Whipped cream
  • 15 g white chocolate
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film

Directions

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    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

  6. 6

    manufacturer) bake for approx. 25 minutes, take out and let cool on a cake rack.

  7. 7

    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.

  8. 8

    Fold in cream, carefully fold in apricot slices.

  9. 9

    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.

  10. 10

    Chill for at least 2 hours.

  11. 11

    Chop the chocolate and melt over a warm water bath. Carefully remove the cake from the ring and decorate with chocolate.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
280 kcal
CARBS
33 g
FATS
14 g
PROTEINS
5 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & Pastriesvery easyCake