Agen prune cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 200 g brioche dough
• 2 30 g beaten egg
• 3 100 g marzipan (almond paste)
• 4 100 g dried prunes
• 5 2 tablespoons caster sugar
• Total weight: 460 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	1 hour	30 min.	1 hour 55 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Roll out 200 g brioche dough into a flat round cake 8 inches (20 cm) diameter. Lay the cake on a baking sheet, then glaze the top. Leave in a warm place to rise for one hour.
2	Roll 100 g marzipan (almond paste) into a long " sausage about half an inch (1 cm) thick.
3	Cut the marzipan into half-inch (1 cm) chunks. Cut the prunes into quarters.
4	Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C). Push the marzipan pieces into the top of the well-risen cake.
5	Stick a piece of prune on top of each piece of marzipan.
6	Glaze the top of the cake again, then sprinkle with caster sugar.
7	Bake for about 30 minutes.
8	Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Remarks

If you would like a stronger Armagnac flavour, add 2 tablespoonsful at the end of mixing the brioche dough.
You can make this recipe using an enriched bread dough (pain brioché), rather than a classic brioche dough, but the cake will be plainer.

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