Soak the apricots in boiling water, straight in advance so, at least in the morning)

How to get melted, slightly crushed 2-3 pieces and poured half a glass of sugar mix-set aside

Mix the dry ingredients for the dough, sugar, flour, baking powder, 4 tablespoons cocoa and slaked soda. Separately, mix the Cup of milk, 2 eggs and a half Cup of oil, I am literally a minute mix blender. Next, this mixture pour the dry ingredients, pomeshivaya straight from work, very thick mass of leaves, and pour a brimming Cup ( Cup for dry measure ingredients) of boiling water stir the mixture gradually turns the consistency of thick cream.

Pour into the shape you trust, oiled my cast iron is thick, always perfectly vypaivali cake, bake for 50 minutes at 180 degrees, the time may varioface of course, individually the size of your oven, test the center with a wooden stick

Cool on a wire rack and cut into 3 parts, the ascent is very good goes, verhushechka even crack, so I'm on the upper Korzh cake use the bottom part. Cut easily and smoothly can be put on a Board, cover with his hand, the knife a couple of inches to stick and how to turn the cake Board around the knife, it turns all cut on the edge, and remains a hold from edge to edge in the ready-made cuts

Dipping as the cream use plain sour cream with sugar, so to speak that is, minimum cost, on a dish a few tablespoons of cream to "have prikleilsya" the lower layer, it is dried apricots in sugar, by the time it is soft and sweet, I once spread all on the bottom, just next to the sour cream

For the top layer to cook the glaze: 5 tablespoons sugar 5 cocoa, a couple tablespoons of milk, as everyone leaves, add a knob of butter. I first smear the spatula as if rubbing the icing in the cake to smooth the top and then smear the edges and fill in thickly to the top

The result is a fairly large three storey chocolate cake) Icing usually cook more " eyes and ingredients take, but honestly so far it seems that the most delicious glaze was in my mom's childhood! Microwave reflected not judge strictly)

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