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Ingredients
Chocolate Cake with Apricots
- Ingredients
- 6 Apricot
- 105 grams butter
- 2 sm packages Vanilla sugar
- 3 eggs
- 100 grams Pastry flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 grams ground almonds
- 90 milliliters milk (0.3% fat)
- 100 grams Chocolate
- 50 grams slivered almonds
- As needed
- powdered sugar
Rinse apricots with hot water. Cut in half, remove cores and cut into wedges.
Beat 100 grams (approximately 3 1/2 ounces) of butter until fluffy. Gradually add eggs, alternating with vanilla sugar, until foamy.
Mix flour with baking powder. Add 1 pinch of salt and ground almonds and stir into egg mixture, alternating with milk. Fold in grated chocolate and apricot wedges.
Line a springform pan with remaning butter and sprinkle with sliced almonds. Pour in batter, smooth and bake in preheated oven at 200°C (approximatey 400°F) or fan oven at 180°C (approximately 350°F), gas mark 3 for 40-50 minutes. If cake begins to darken too much, cover with aluminum foil.
Remove cake from oven and allow to cool pan. Remove from pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Slice and serve.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 168 cal. | (8 %) | ||
| Protein | 5 g | (5 %) | ||
| Fat | 11 g | (9 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 11 g | (7 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 1 g | (4 %) | ||
| Roughage | 2.4 g | (8 %) |
Healthy, because
The fruity cake gets by with little sugar - good for the line. Apricots also provide a lot of beta-carotene, which is important for the eyes, among other things.
Even smarter
If you like, you can also replace the almonds with hazelnuts, walnuts or cashew nuts.