Apricot Crumbcake
- 1/2 cup butter, unsalted softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 each eggs
- 3 each egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups flour, all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 12 medium apricots
- 1 1/4 cups flour, all-purpose
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter, unsalted melted
- CAKE BATTER: Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
- Butter a 10-inch round, 2-inch deep cake pan and line the bottom with a disk of parchment or wax paper.
- In a large mixer bowl, beat the butter and sugar until soft and light.
- 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.
- Rinse and halve the apricots.
- Remove the pits with the bowl of a small spoon if they resist.
- Arrange the apricot halves cut-side up 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 mound slightly in the center of the cake; the top will even out as the cake bakes.
- CRUMB TOPPING: 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 apricots and the edge of the batter as evenly as possible.
- Bake the cake 1 hour until a knife inserted in the center comes out 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 cake onto the rack, remove the plate and cool.
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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/apricot-crumbcake-3307 (may not work)