The Cake Part...
The Cake Part
Pre heat the oven to 180C / 350F and prepare a loaf with by greasing it well with olive oil and then dusting with the flour of your choice. You could also just line with a parchment paper.
Pour the boiling water over the apricots and let sit for 5 minutes while you assemble the rest of the ingredients.
If you're mixing in a thermo-cooker or blender, just mix your eggs and sugar on highest speed for 30 seconds, then add everything else, along with the apricots with half their water tipped out once they're soaked. Mix on medium speed for 15 seconds and you're ready to bake.
If mixing by hand, sift the flours into a bowl.
Whisk the eggs and sugar together in a separate bowl
Combine those and all other ingredients, except soaked apricots
Fne chop the soaked apricots, keeping a little of their water (about half of it) and fold them into the mix.
Pour cake batter into loaf tin and bake for 35-40 minutes - test with a skewer at 30mins and bake an additional 10 minutes if still coming up wet in the middle. Then check again... Every oven is different!
Pull out of the oven and cook on a cake rack for 30 minutes before adding the syrup and crushed nuts. I like to pop the nuts in the oven when the cake comes out, to keep the timings moving and get a bit of efficiency happening!