Sour-cream Apricot Coffeecake

When ye murmur and repine under cross and afflictive dispensations, this is a presuming to instruct God how to deal with you, and to reprove Him as if He were in the wrong. Yea, there is a kind of implicit blasphemy in it, as if you had more wisdom and justice to dispose of your lot, and to carve out your own portion in the world. This is upon the matter the language of such a disposition, Had I been on God’s counsel, I had ordered this matter better; things had not been with me as now they are. O presume not to correct the infinite wisdom of God, seeing He has decreed all things most wisely and judiciously.

Thomas Boston

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Cake	16	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	c	Unsifted flour
1	T	Baking powder
1/2	t	Salt
3/4	c	Plus
1	T	Finely chopped dried
		apricots
3/4	c	Firmly packed light-brown
		sugar
1/2	c	Butter, softened
3/4	c	Almond paste
1 1/3	c	Light sour cream
2		Eggs
1/2	c	Apricot preserves
		Sliced natural almonds
1/2	c	Powdered sugar
1/4	c	Apricot preserves
1/4	t	Water

INSTRUCTIONS

From: NDooley@president-po.president.uiowa.edu  Date: 25 May 1995
09:49:40 -0600 Heat oven to 350 deg. and grease and  lightly flour a
10-inch Bundt or other decorate tube pan.  In a  medium size bowl, sift
together flour, baking powder, and salt; stir  in 3/4 C. chopped
apricots until lightly coated with flour mixtures.  Set aside.  In
large bowl, electric mixer on medium, beat sugar and butter until
light and fluffy; crumble in almond paste and beat until blended.  Add
sour cream and eggs and beat until blended; stir in apricot  preserves.
With mixer on very low speed, add flour mixture to sour cream mixture
and beat just until blended--do not overmix.  Spoon batter into
prepared pan and bake 50 to 60 minutes or until cake tester inserted
in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes
and turn cake out onto serving plate. Cool completely. Prepare  Apricot
Glaze and set aside.  Just before serving, decorate cake:  Stir 1 tsp
of Glaze into  remaining T. of chopped apricots; set aside.  Spread
remaining glaze  over top of cake, allowing it to run down the sides.
Make "flowers"  on top of cake by clustering sliced almonds and placing
a glazed  chopped apricot in the center of each "flower."  Apricot
Glaze:  In small bowl, stir together 1/2 C. powdered sugar,  1/4 C.
apricot preserves, and 1/4 tsp. water until sugar dissolves.
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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 258 Calories From Fat: 87 Total Fat: 10.1g Cholesterol: 38.7mg Sodium: 192.4mg Potassium: 97.2mg Carbohydrates: 38.7g Fiber: 1.1g Sugar: 19.2g Protein: 4.5g

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