Honey cake, a springy loaf called lekach in Yiddish and traditionally served at Rosh Hashana, is not my favorite holiday dessert. So I was thrilled when, in the 1990s, Charles Fenyvesi, a colleague of ...

To prepare the apricot cake, start with the fruit. Choose sweet, ripe apricots but with firm flesh. Gently wash them under running water (1). Set aside 5 whole apricots for the final decoration, and ...