Soft Cake With Dried Fruit
By: sunflowers8
Published: Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 7:55am

Ingredients




200 grams of salted butter
150 grams sugar
120 grams flour 00
30 grams almond powder (*)
8 grams of baking powder for cakes
1/2 a vanilla bean
5 dried apricots
3 figs jumbo
2 pitted dates
some walnuts
125 grams of powdered sugar (optional)
50 grams sliced almonds (optional)

Preparation

1 Cut the vanilla bean along its length, open it and take a book contained within the seeds by scraping with the tip of a boxcutter. 2 Melt the butter cut into small pieces in a pan and let cool. 3 Meanwhile, sift flour and add to the almond powder. 4 Add half the sugar and set aside. 5 Beat eggs with remaining sugar until they are light and fluffy, add, little by little, the mix of flour and sugar and stir. 6 Pour the melted butter and scented with vanilla seeds. 7 Mix well, then finish with the baking powder. 8 Cut the dried fruit into small pieces and blend it into the mixture from the bottom up. 9 Grease a cake tin of 22 cm in diameter (I used a silicon cake pan of 26 cm), pour the mixture and bake at 190°C for 35-40 minutes (30-35 minutes for my cake). 10 Remove the cake from the oven, let cool and invert on a serving platter. 11 You may want to mix the powdered sugar with 1 or 2 tablespoons of water, spread the icing on the cake obtained and decorate with sliced almonds (I preferred just a slight dusting of icing sugar). 12 If you do not have the powdered almonds or almond flour, blend 30 g blanched almonds with 1 teaspoon of sugar removed from the one indicated in the ingredients. Run the blades of the mixer until you obtain a fine powder.