red hawk room chocolate apricot upside-down cake
Red Hawk Room Chocolate Apricot Upside-Down Cake Source: Marthe Clark, pastry chef, Freddie’s at Red Hawk and the Red Hawk Room, Sparks, Nevada For the apricots 1 1/4 cups dried ap...
Ingredients
- 11/4 cups dried apricots
- 11/2 cups water
- 1/2cupgranulated sugar
- 1/2cupapricot brandy
- 3/4cupdark brown sugar
- 1/4cupmelted butter
- 11/2 cups cake flour
- 41/2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder
Directions
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Red Hawk Room Chocolate Apricot Upside-Down Cake Source: Marthe Clark, pastry chef, Freddie’s at Red Hawk and the Red Hawk Room, Sparks, Nev
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Drain, reserving about 1/4 cup of cooking liquid
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Take 4 tablespoons of the reconstituted apricots and purée with poaching liquid in a food processor
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Melt brown sugar and butter together in saucepan until hot and bubbling
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Add apricot purée and cook together, about 30 seconds
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Immediately spread mixture on bottom of 9-inch cake pan well coated with nonstick cooking spray
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Arrange remaining apricots in concentric circles atop mixture
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For the cake 1 1/2 cups cake flour 3/4 cup granulated sugar 4 1/2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons baking sod