I found some lovely fresh apricots in the supermarket and had to bake something with them. I thought they would go nicely with an almond sponge so this recipe for apricot and almond traybake as born.
Fresh apricots are one of my favourite summer fruits, they remind me of childhood from eating tinned apricots in juice. But fresh ones are so much better!
A quick and easy bake like this is a lovely treat for dessert.
Serve warm with ice cream or cut into squares once cool and it is ideal to pop into a lunchbox as a treat. Popular with the whole family!
This didn’t last long in my house. Soft and fragrant apricots nestled inside a delicious almond sponge, yum!
You have to try my recipe for apricot and almond traybake this summer.
How to Make this Apricot and Almond Traybake
This traybake or sheet cake iso easy to make. I used a stoneware pan for this recipe, but a normal tin would work just as well.
Make up the sponge mixture, then add the halved fresh apricots on top and sprinkle over a little sugar. As it bakes the apricots sink into the middle and become so soft and sweet.
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Apricot and almond traybake
Ingredients
- 220 g butter
- 220 g caster sugar
- 4 eggs medium
- 50 g ground almonds
- 170 g self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 8 apricots halved
- caster sugar to sprinkle over the fruit
- icing sugar to serve
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs one by one, and mix well after adding each one.
- Fold in the flour, ground almonds, baking powder and vanilla extract and mix until just combined.
- I cooked this in a stoneware dish so I just sprayed it with some Lurpak cooking spray to prepare it.
- Pour in the cake batter and smooth around the dish with a spatula.
- Press in the apricots in a pattern of one turned up and one turned down.
- Sprinkle over the additional sugar to sweeten the fruit.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes at 180 degrees in a preheated oven, or until the sponge is golden brown and the centre of the cake is firm and a skewer comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in the dish, sprinkle with icing sugar, then cut into squares to serve.
Kim says
Cooked this cake and it was truly delicious, Everyone loved it.
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks very much for leaving your review, so glad to hear this!
Bailey says
This looks wonderful!! Are ground almonds and almond flour the same? Thank you in advance!
bakingqueen74 says
Hi Bailey, I think you asked me this on Pinterest too. I haven’t tried making this cake using almond flour but I think almond flour is often similar to ground almonds but finer (used to make macarons etc) so it might work ok but would not give the same texture. Good luck!
Zahra says
Thanks for the recipe. It’s a lot simpler than an apricot upside down cake! Can you use other stone fruit? If so which ones and would you substitute the ground almonds for something else?
Thanks!
bakingqueen74 says
I am glad you enjoyed it! I only make this recipe with apricots but I think plums would also work well, keeping the ground almonds.
ET Speaks From Home says
I love to eat apricot but had not try them in cake! This is so yummy looking cake!