APRICOT CRUMBLE CAKE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Toss the apricots with the lemon juice in a bowl; set aside. Combine oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg in a bowl. Cut in the butter with a knife or pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set 2 cups of the oat mixture aside in a bowl. Mix the water into the remaining oat mixture until well blended; pat mixture into the prepared baking dish to make a crust. Spread the apricots evenly over the crust, and top with the reserved crumble mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the topping is lightly browned, 35 to 40 minutes. Served hot with whipped cream.

Steps:

• For the pastry: sift flour into a bowl, make a well in the center and add yeast to the well. Sprinkle with sugar and add 40 ml (approximately 1 1/3 ounces) of warm milk. Let rest for about 20 minutes. Add remaining pastry ingredients and 1/3 of milk. Knead into a smooth pastry with a dough attachment of a hand mixer. Gradually add remaining milk, kneading. If pastry is too dry, add a little lukewarm milk; if too thin, add a little flour. Cover and let rise for about 1 hour in a warm place. 
• For the crumble: combine flour with sugar and butter, crumble with your hands. Refrigerate, covered.  
• Blanch apricots in hot water, rinse in cold water and peel. Halve and pit.
• Butter springform pan. 
• Knead pastry on a dusted with flour work surface thoroughly, shape into a ball and roll out until 2-3 cm (approximately 1 inch) wider than the diameter of the springform pan. Line greased pan with it, making an edge all around. Prick with a fork several times.
• For the topping: separate eggs and whisk egg yolks with quark, sugar and pudding powder. Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff and fold. Spread mixture onto pastry and cover with apricot halves, cut side down. Sprinkle with crumble and bake in preheated oven at 180°C (approximately 350°F) for about 40-45 minutes or until golden brown (inserted toothpick should come out clean). Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.