Whole Wheat apricot Coffee Cake with almond crumble

Instructions:

Clean and cut out the pits of about 300-400g fresh apricots. Leaving the skins on, slice into small bite-size chunks and toss together in a bowl with 1 tablespoon of sugar

Using an electric mixer, add 2/3 c flour, 1/2 c ground almonds, 2/3 c sugar, and then beat in a mixture of oil and butter (all of either would really work, but I try to use more of the oil, preferrably a non-flavored olive oil to get some good fats in it rather than just saturated fat-butter---> so I put in 2 Tbsp butter and drizzled in just enough oil to bring it together to make the crumble topping) Then set this aside, and use the mixer to make the batter:

1/3-1/2 c oil, into a mixer (stand mixer is best!) and beat with 3/4 cup sugar, beat for several minutes on high, and should turn light and creamy-looking. Add 3 teaspoons of lemon juice. Sequentially add in four eggs, letting each fully beat in before adding the next. Then beat in one tablespoon of vanilla extract, and just a pinch of salt.
Sift together 2/3-3/4 c whole wheat flour and 1.5 tsp baking powder in another bowl, then beat it into the egg mixture quickly.

Pour half of mixture into a pan of about this size--> ( I used a 10" / 25cm diameter springform pan), preferrably non-stick :)

then distribute half of the chopped apricots over this 1-2cm thickness of batter, then pour over the rest of the batter covering the first layer of apricots. Then sprinkle over the second layer of apricots, and the crumble topping over on top of that.

Bake at 350 F/ 175 C for about 45-60 min...depends on your pan size/oven so use a toothpick in the middle to test when done (and the crumble on top around teh outside will maybe start to look like it's browning some. Mine took 50 min, and in the last few min I turned up the oven temp a bit more and it got the crumble topping just lightly golden-looking which I like..

The apricots get all nice and soft inside and have a really great tartness to balance out the sweet crumble... quite pleasantly surprised with the results on this one!