It’s again birthday month in my family. Today is my husband’s official birthday (sounds funny lol) and two days back was my brother in law’s birthday. On 10th is my sis in laws bday so yes another cake is in pipeline. This cake I had made on my brother in law’s birthday but my husband missed it so made it again today. He is really fussy when it comes to eating fruits, so fruits in dessert are the only way I have been able to sneak up fruits in his diet. I replaced brown sugar with Jaggery Sugar for the sticky taste, it definitely worked.
Preparation time- 10 minutes
Cooking time- 40 minutes
Ingredients-
Apricots- 250 gm
Brown sugar / Jaggery Sugar- ½ cup
Star anise- 1
Butter- 1 cup
Castor sugar- ½ cup
Vanilla essence- ½ tsp
Eggs- 3
Flour- 2 cups
Cocoa powder- ½ cup
Espresso Coffee powder- ½ tbsp
Baking powder- ½ tbsp
Milk- 2 tbsp
Method-
Line the cake tin with parchment paper; preheat the oven to 180°C. Wash the apricots, remove the stone and slice them. In a saucepan add apricots, sugar, ½ tbsp butter and star anise. Make a caramel with occasional stir till bubbles form on the surface and apricots are completely coated in the syrup. This will take 5-8 minutes. Remove the star anise, line the apricots in the cake tin as per the design you wish on the cake top and pour in the caramel. I did in circular motion (requires a lot of patience). Cream butter and sugar and then add eggs gradually to a fluffy mix. Add vanilla essence; sift flour, cocoa powder, espresso powder and baking powder together in the egg mix. Fold together and add milk if required to loosen the batter. Transfer to the apricots lined cake tin and layer the batter smoothly. Bake for 25- 30 min or till the skewer comes out clean. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes. Get the cake out on the serving plate carefully as the juice and caramel would spill out once inverted on the plate. Make sure the serving plate is the edged one to contain the caramel and juice.
Published by Richa Bhargava Mitra
A food enthusiast who finds cooking a stress buster. A core Rajasthani married to a Bengali, my kitchen is always happily churning out dishes covering both the states as well as many other experiments including all things sweet :)
Baking has never been a part of my growing years and messing around in the kitchen schedule. Primarily because baking without egg never seemed like an option...why ? Well this goes wayyy back. I am a Bhargava who are strictly vegetarians by choice and religion. Hence no onion, garlic , eggs etc can even enter the house..forget the kitchen. But growing years of every generation had their share of baked goodies which always had eggs.
My Grandfather ( Mother's father) used to assist in a bakery during his college days in Rawalpindi..this was before India's independence and hence all the bakeries etc were British. My grampa still swears by the taste of all the amazing patisseries and almond milk etc. My mother had her share during her Convent school days and so did I. For my father there was a twist, by the time he grew up his mother had allowed onion and eggs in kitchen ....yippeee. But then eventually every one grows up and the religion factor comes into the picture. Hence till date at my Mother's place no onion in the kitchen. But i married a bengali who was nowhere near to be a vegetarian. So after many... failed, not so successful, will do, oohh good, disaster, can you keep the taste consistent, too much salt and loads of patience i have finally managed to start cooking the way dishes are supposed to be. Hence my blog focuses on baked goodies, vegetarian Bhargava food and Bengali food that i have learned from my husband and In laws. Not to miss the name SweetJaw as i cannot stay away from sweet ..not in any form but i guess cakes, cookies, tarts, pastries, Indian sweets in fact any things that is either baked, deep fried, and has chocolate , icing sugar is bound be the best. So my blog's name is shamelessly SweetJaw
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Wow! Yum. Lucky him. I love the idea of the anise in with the apricots and caramel. And beautiful pictures!
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Thank you so much Karinna 🙂
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Wow! This looks so delicious…
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Thank you
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what a stunning looking cake! Have never tried baking an upside-cake – will add it to my ‘to bake’ list.
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Thank you so much for the compliment , looking forward to your post 🙂
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Now that’s a lovely cake to have on a birthday! 🙂
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This looks lovely!
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Your food looks so nice! It’s honestly restaurant quality😊
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Thank you so much for your kind words and love. Keep visiting and encouraging.
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