Cake with dried apricots

Pies are baked dishes, which are usually made from dough stuffed with various sweet or savory products. The pie can have only the bottom crust, as well as the upper and lower crusts, between which is the filling. Sweet pies are often baked from dough, into which the filling is stuffed. For a sweet filling, it is better to use ingredients that do not flow out of the cake when baking it. This is raisins, dried apricots, rice, candied fruits. Cake with dried apricots or other ingredients can be prepared on the basis of soda or yeast dough.

Recipe 1

A cake with dried apricots and raisins from a soda dough is quickly prepared and remains fresh for a long time. The ingredients for the fruit pie are listed below .

For the test:

• 210 grams of margarine.
• 3 eggs.
• Lemon zest.
• 150 g of sugar sand.
• 2 thin glasses of flour.
• ½ teaspoon of baking soda (quenched with a few drops of boiling water).
• Milk for obtaining the test of the desired consistency.
• Breadcrumbs.

For filling:

• 140 g raisins (washed and dried).
• 100 g dried apricots (washed and dried, cut into pieces).
• 50 grams of grated candied fruits.
• Sugar glaze is optional.

Stir the melted margarine to a stable foam (a little left to grease the forms), sugar, lemon zest, gradually add the eggs, whisking to a homogeneous mass. Pour in the flour and add slaked baking soda. Stir, the dough should fall from the spoon with difficulty, if it is too thick, then add milk. Candy, raisins and dried apricots are mixed in the dough. The form for baking is smeared with margarine, sprinkled with breadcrumbs, spread the dough in it and bake at a temperature of 170 ° C for 50 minutes, the first 35 minutes the oven door is not opened. Before serving, pie with dried apricots, candied fruits and raisins can be covered with sugar glaze.

Recipe 2

Apricot cake before baking is sprinkled with a sprinkler, that is, sweet crumbs. Pie with dried apricots is made on the basis of yeast dough.

For the test:

• 3 thin glasses of flour.
• 100 g of sugar sand.
• 30 g of yeast.
• ¼ liter of milk.
• 125 grams of margarine or butter.
• Lemon zest.
• 1 egg.
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar.
• 1 pinch of salt.

For filling:

• ¼ liter of milk.
• 400 g dried apricots, washed and soaked in warm water (boiled) for 1 hour, the water before use, poured, slightly dried, cut in half.
• 100 g of sugar sand.
• 4 eggs.
• Lemon zest.

For the scraper:

• 100 g of granulated sugar.
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
• 1.5 faceted glasses of flour.
• 125 g butter butter.

In accordance with the recipe make a yeast dough, close it and put the minutes for 30 in a warm place. Shake eggs, milk, lemon zest and sugar. Prepare the shreisel from flour, butter and cinnamon. Roll out the dough on a sheet, oiled, slightly raise the edges. On the dough tightly laid apricots, pour a mixture of whipped eggs with milk, sprinkle with a streak. Bake in preheated to 200 ° C oven. Cake with dried apricots will be ready in 40 minutes.

Recipe 3

From white rice and dried apricots on the basis of a thick pastry bake a pie with rice and dried apricots. 4 servings will require:

For the test:

• 85 grams of margarine.
• 2 faceted glasses of flour.
• 1 egg.
• ½ tablespoon of tea soda food (pre-extinguish a few drops of steep boiling water).
• 60 g of sugar sand.
• Salt.
• 2 tablespoons milk spoons.
• Lemon zest.

For filling:

• 100 g of white rice.
• 8 dried apricot fruits.
• 50 g of butter, as well as an additional amount for lubricating the molds.
• 3 eggs.
• ½ liter of milk.
• Vanilla sugar.

For the dough, the flour is sieved and mixed with all the ingredients. Divide the dough into 4 parts, roll them out and spread them into molds, oiled, puncture the fork, put in an oven heated to 170 ° C. When the dough is ready, take it out of the molds and put it aside. The oil is heated in a frying pan, add dried apricots and rice. Stir with a wooden spatula, pour in the milk so that it only covers the mixture of rice and dried apricots. Cook on low heat with continuous stirring, gradually pouring the rest of the milk. Continue cooking, stirring until rice absorbs milk. It will take 15 minutes (depending on the quality of the rice). Spread the mixture into a bowl, add the vanilla sugar and mix. Separate the egg white from the yolk. Add the yolks and sugar to the rice with dried apricots, allow the mixture to cool. Whisk the proteins to hard peaks, gradually introduce them into the chilled filling. Fill each cake with filling and smooth with a knife. Place the pies in the oven, heated to 180 ° C for 20 minutes. Ready pies are served (hot, warm or cold) with fresh apricot sauce, syrup or cream.