Lemon Cake with Aniseed and Dry Apricots from Sababa by Tal Smith

Ingredients

• 500 ml castor sugar
• 6 eggs
• 570 ml flour
• ¼ tsp baking powder
• 100 g flaked almonds
• 100 g dry apricots, soaked in warm water and chopped
• 2.5 ml aniseed, crushed
• grated rind of 2 lemons
• 250 g butter, at room temperature
• 250 ml cream