Dice the apricots. Coarsely chop the pistachios. Cream fat, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Mix flour and baking powder and stir into the fat egg mixture. Stir in buttermilk. Add apricots and pistachios to the dough.
Grease a ring cake tin (2 litres capacity) and sprinkle with flour. Fill in the dough and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 50 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest on a cake rack for about 10 minutes. Then turn out and let it cool down completely. Sprinkle with icing sugar and pistachios
waiting time approx. 2 hours