Apricot, Almond and Blackberry Cake

Last weekend was the wedding of a good friend of mine from secondary school and one of the requests was that guests bring a cake and the challenge was to have a slice of each cake at the reception (I don't think anyone managed this!). Rather than do the sensible thing and cook my tried and tested wholewheat banana cake, I decided to do that risky thing of trying out a new recipe the night before. I felt like doing something with apricots and scoured the internet until I came across this recipe. Then I decided to substitute some of the apricots for blackberries. The resulting cake turned out really nicely, and the two fruits complimented each other quite well.

I also made two cup cakes with this recipe mix, since of course me and Pete had to try the cake before taking it to the wedding, so if you wanted to you could make individual cup cakes instead. In this case, slice the apricots into quarters rather than halves and use one blackberry per cake.