July 2012 - Coconut-Apricot-Cake

Coconut-Apricot-Cake

Ingredients:

250 g unsalted butter, softened

200 g sugar

4 eggs

1 tbl spoon vanilla sugar

1 tbl spoon dark rum

250 g plain flour

1 pinch of salt

1 heaped tsp baking powder

100 g dark chocolate chips

75 g grated coconut

one handful of dried apricots, chopped into small cubes

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 °C and line a cake tin (30 cm) with baking paper.

With an electric mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla sugar and rum and beat until well combined. Mix together flour, salt and baking powder and sieve unto egg mix. Add chocolate, coconut and apricots and stir by hand until just combined.

Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake on the lowest shelf of the oven for one hour or until a skewer comes out clean.