Apricot Cake

Ingredients

• Honey
  1 cup
• vegetable oil
  1/2 cup
• arrowroot dissolved in 1 cup water
  3 tsp
• vanilla extract
  1 tsp
• unbleached all-purpose flour
  1 1/2 cups
• whole-Wheat pastry flour
  1 cup
• baking powder
  3 tsp
• baking soda
  1/2 tsp
• salt
  1/8 tsp
• ripe apricots

  quartered and pitted (4 cups)
  1 1/2 lbs
• slivered blanched almonds (4 1/2 oz.)

  roughly chopped
  3/4 cup
• Honey
  1/4 cup
• vanilla extract
  1 tsp
• Tbs. unbleached all-purpose flour
  2 unit