Carrot-orange cake with dried apricots

1. Rinse the dried apricots, cut them into small pieces. Pour half an orange with a mixture of cognac and juice. We leave for the night.

If it seems to you that there is not enough juice, you can dilute the mixture with water or ready-made store-bought juice.

2. Mix the ingredients of the dry part of the dough: flour + spices + soda + sugar + baking powder.

Here you then need to add the zest of half the fruit.

3. Eggs, vegetable oil and honey are mixed separately.

4. It's time to combine the flour and egg mixtures.

5. Add carrots and dried apricots to the dough along with juice. The dough should resemble gruel.

6. Baking: 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

7. An interesting way to serve the finished cake is provided by the fact that freshly baked cake is pricked right in the form with something sharp and soaked in orange juice (2-3 tablespoons). Let cool.

8. Directly on the dish, you need to chop the cake again and pour another part of orange juice (20-25 g).

9. Cream: cottage cheese, sour cream, powdered sugar and orange zest are mixed.

So, let's serve: you can take a beautiful dish and put the cream on loose pieces of fragrant cake with spoons. The second method involves portioning the cake pieces into bowls with a spoonful of cream on top.

Experiment, surprise and have fun!