=== CAKE BATTER ===
1 Stick Unsalted butter;
-softened
3/4 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 Whole Egg
3 Egg yolks
1 1/4 c Unbleached all-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
8 Apricots; pitted, quartered
=== CRUMB TOPPING ===
1 1/4 c Unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 c Sugar
1/4 ts Cinnamon
1 Stick Unsalted butter;
-melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 10-inch round cake pan,
2-inches deep and line the bottom with a disk of parchment or wax
paper. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light
and soft. Add the egg and continue beating until light. Add the yolks
one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in the
vanilla. Sift together the flour and baking powder and stir into the
batter. Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan. Arrange the
apricots skin-side down on the batter in concentric rows, overlapping
slightly, leaving a margin of about 1-inch around the edge. Don’t be
concerned if the apricots mounds slightly in the center of the cake,
the top will even out as the cake bakes. For the crumbs, mix the
flour, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Melt the butter and stir it in
evenly. Rub the mixture to coarse crumbs by hand. Scatter the crumbs
over the apricot and the batter at the edges as evenly as possible.
Bake the cake 1 hour until a knife point inserted in the center
emerges clean. Cool the cake in the pan for about 15 minutes and
invert a plate on it. Invert onto the plate and lift off the pan.
Peel off the paper and invert a rack on the cake. Invert onto the
rack and cool. This recipe yields ?? servings.
Variations: Substitute 8 pitted and quartered plums or 3 cups fresh
cut pineapple.
Yields
1 servings