Apricot pie - amazing pastries with a summer taste.
The fragrant, crumbly delicacy is perfect for home tea drinking or meeting guests.
And do not worry that the yeast does not work or the cake settles in the oven.
He will definitely succeed!
Shortcake with apricots - the general principles of preparation
Fat, oil, margarine - the constant and often interchangeable ingredients of shortcrust pastry. In combination with flour, they give the cake a loose structure. The main ingredients are combined with sugar, eggs, sour cream. Before use, the dough is cooled.
For the filling, you can use fresh or frozen apricots, many recipes allow you to put canned fruits and jam into the filling. Apricots are harmoniously combined with apples, nuts. Pears, different berries. But you need to remember that a large amount of juice can soak sand cake. For protection, it can be lightly sprinkled with starch.
Shortcake with apricots "Ordinary Miracle"
Really wonderful recipe for shortcake with apricots, for which you need fresh fruit. The dough on ordinary margarine, but with butter will turn out even tastier.
Ingredients
• 0.1 kg of margarine;
• egg;
• some salt;
• vanilla;
• 20 grams of almond flour;
• 160 grams of wheat flour;
• 65 grams of powdered sugar.
For filling:
• 0.8 kg of apricots;
• 0.1 kg of sugar;
• 50 g butter;
• a spoonful of starch.
Cooking
1. Mix all the ingredients of the dough. Margarine in tiny cubes. We shift it into a harvester and grind it to a crumb. You can do this with your hands, but in this case, margarine is best kept a little warm or grated.
2. Pour a quarter of the crumbs, rub them with your hands for flowability, transfer to a bowl and send to lie in the refrigerator.
3. Spread the rest of the crumbs on a piece of cling film, also cover on top. We roll out the circle a little more in shape, remove it to cool for half an hour.
4. While you can prepare apricots. We remove the seeds, cut into quarters and fry for five minutes in a frying pan with oil, season with sugar and cool.
5. We take out the frozen layer, remove the film from one side and transfer it to the mold. We hold in the refrigerator for another twenty minutes.
6. Sprinkle the dough with a spoonful of starch and distribute the apricot filling, which should already have cooled.
7. Sprinkle the filling on top of the previously set aside crumbs.
8. Oven "Ordinary Miracle" for about 40 minutes.
Shortcake with apricots and cottage cheese
An interesting version of the shortbread cake with apricots, in the filling for which cottage cheese is also added. The dough on margarine, you can take fat or any oil.
Ingredients
• 100 g sugar;
• 8 g of ripper;
• 0.4 kg of flour;
• 3 eggs;
• 150 g margarine.
Filling:
• 150 gr. Sahara;
• 60 grams of apricots;
• 50 grams of starch;
• 600 grams of apricots;
• three eggs;
• 150 ml cream.
Cooking
1. Soften margarine and grind together with baking powder and flour.
2. Whisk eggs with a whisk in a froth along with sugar, combine with flour crumbs. Knead, send to cool.
3. Cottage cheese is combined with eggs, one yolk is immediately thrown to the side for decoration. We fill the filling with sugar, throw vanilla at will. Rub and cream. If the curd is weak in consistency, then you can pour in the cream only half.
4. Wash the apricots, cut into four parts. We leave to wait for our turn.
5. We take out the dough, knead a little.
6. Roll out the circle. Its diameter should be five centimeters larger than the bottom of the form.
7. We shift, with our fingers we form small sides.
8. Sprinkle the bottom of the pie with starch and spread the pieces of apricot. Set aside some beautiful cloves for decoration.
9. Pour the curd filling on top, level the layer.
10. Decorate with apricots and grease with yolk. It’s better to do it with a brush. We bake it.
Shortcake with apricots and meringues
A variant of a very sweet shortcake with apricots under a layer of air meringue. A similar dessert can be found with apples, peaches and other fruits.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of flour;
• egg;
• margarine 0.1 kg;
• 0.1 kg of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp cultivator.
For meringues:
• 2 pcs. squirrel;
• 0.1 kg of powder;
• 1 tsp lemon juice.
For the filling of 300 grams of apricots, a little starch.
Cooking
1. For the test, margarine must be melted, be sure to cool. Combine the egg with sugar, grind. Introduce margarine, followed by flour and cultivator. You can use a third of a teaspoon of soda, but be sure to pay off.
2. Remove the dough in the cold, stand for half an hour.
3. We get out, we roll out, we shift in the form. We pull out and align the sides with our fingers.
4. Beat whites and sugar until a stable foam, add lemon juice.
5. Sprinkle the sand cake with starch, lightly dust, a thick layer does not need to be done.
6. Arranging apricots cut randomly.
7. We spread the meringue with a spoon, you can in small heaps.
8. We send to bake for 35 minutes. Set 180 ° C.
Shortbread cake with bulk Loose apricots
A variant of friable pie made from loose dough. During baking, the fat melts, the crumbs are soaked in fruit juice and you get amazing crust, crispy and tasty.
Ingredients
• 2 cups of flour;
• 1 tsp cultivator;
• 0.2 kg of margarine;
• 0.4 kg of apricots;
• ¾ cup sugar;
• sugar in the filling;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Cut apricots into cubes, the size is small. Sprinkle lightly with sugar and leave to marinate. You can pour cinnamon, a little vanilla or sprinkle with brandy.
2. Grind margarine with flour and prescription sugar. It should turn out to be a dry crumb, which, when squeezed in a fist, seizes and then crumbles again. For a scent, throw a pinch of vanilla.
3. Spread more than half of the crumbs in the form, leave a quarter.
4. Level the layer and spread the apricots in sugar.
5. Sprinkle with crumbs.
6. We bake until rosy color, set at least 200 degrees. To cut such a pie you need to be warm, it is more difficult to make it cool.
Shortcake with apricots and nuts
For such an apricot pie, you can take peanuts, but the most fragrant and delicious pastries are obtained with walnuts. Will we cook?
Ingredients
• 0.1 kg of oil;
• 0.18 kg of flour;
• 0.1 kg of sugar;
• 1 egg;
• 0.1 kg of nuts;
• 1 protein;
• 4 tablespoons of powder;
• 0.4 kg of apricots.
Cooking
1. Beat the egg with sugar, add the grated butter with flour. We spread the dough into a mold and send it to the refrigerator for a while.
2. Nuts are slightly dried and chopped into small pieces. You can use the combine and grind, but not quite to flour. Grains should be felt.
3. Beat the protein and powder until foam, add the nuts.
4. Apricots break in halves.
5. We spread on the cake a layer of nut mass with protein, on top of half the apricots. The fruits are slightly deepened.
6. We send to bake.
7. Cook at 180 ° C for about half an hour. If necessary, add time.
Shortcake with apricots and apples
The recipe for a juicy, fragrant, crumbly shortbread cake with apples and apricots. Instead of butter, you can put margarine in the dough, it will be no worse.
Ingredients
• 3 cups flour;
• 1 tsp cultivator;
• 250 grams of oil;
• a glass of sugar;
• 3 tablespoons sour cream;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 tablespoons of powder;
• 0.5 kg of apples;
• 0.5 kg of apricots;
• 50 grams of dried jelly.
Cooking
1. Rub the oil, instead of which you can take margarine, add the sifted flour and a cultivator, throw sugar, rub everything together with your hands.
2. Add the yolks to the dough, sour cream and knead.
3. We pluck a quarter of the dough. We make an elongated sausage, wrap it in captivity and throw it in the freezer. We just put a big lump on a shelf in the refrigerator, we also wrap it in film.
4. While the mass cools, we make fruit. Chop apples. The skin can be removed or left, it does not play a special role. Apricots cut into pieces too.
5. The remaining proteins are whipped until foam with powdered sugar and we introduce a concentrate of dried jelly.
6. We take out the dough from the refrigerator and form the bottom cake. Stretch over the entire surface of the pan.
7. Put apples on it, scatter apricot slices on top.
8. Lubricate the top with a mixture of whipped proteins with jelly.
9. Now it's the turn of the test from the freezer. We get, we rub on top of the protein layer on a coarse grater.
10. We bake a shortcake to a ruddy color. The temperature is around 190 degrees.
Shortcake with apricots and sour cream filling
A variant of a pie with a juicy filling. Apricots are poured with a delicate cream based on sour cream. The dough is the simplest, cooked without sugar.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg of flour;
• 0.2 kg of oil;
• 2 eggs.
Fill:
• two eggs;
• three tablespoons of sugar;
• 150 grams of sour cream.
The filling is about half a kilogram of apricots.
Cooking
1. For the test, just mix everything together. If the lack of sugar confuses, then you can add half a spoonful of powder.
2. We lay out the dough in shape, making the campaign process small sides. The dough layer will be thin.
3. We spread apricots sorted into halves according to the test. But you can cut it even smaller. We do it to your taste.
4. Combine the eggs and sugar, beat and add sour cream. Stir.
5. Water the apricots with sour cream, try not to shift the slices.
6. Such a cake is baked for about 25 minutes, temperature 190.
Shortcake with apricots - useful tips and tricks
• Shortcrust pastry will be tender if you add a little baking powder to it. You can pour ordinary soda, but only after pre-extinguishing.
• To knead the dough you need to use fat margarine, sour cream or butter. A low-fat, watery product makes baking tough and dry.
• If the apricots are too juicy, you can sprinkle them with sugar, let stand and drain the allocated juice. The liquid can be used for stewed fruit, put the fruit in the filling of the pie.
