Cupcakes with dried apricots

Cooking portioned muffins in tins in the oven. Delicate, juicy, soft and aromatic homemade cakes according to this simple recipe will delight you with their appearance. Cupcakes with dried apricots turn out to be rich in color, similar to carrot or pumpkin - like suns in a plate!

Wheat flour can be used not only of the highest, but also of the first grade. We take medium-sized chicken eggs (45-50 grams each), and you can reduce the amount of sugar if you like baking with sourness

Ingredients

• Wheat flour of the highest grade (240 grams)
• Water (200 milliliters)
• SugarSugar (180 grams)
• Dried apricots (150 grams)
• Chicken eggs (2 pieces)
• Butter (60 grams)
• Baking dough (1 tablespoon)
• Almond petals (1 tablespoon)
• Cooking Salt Cooking Salt (1 pinch)

Directions

1. To prepare these juicy and tender muffins, we need the following ingredients: wheat flour (in my case, premium), dried apricots, butter (at least 72% fat), chicken eggs, granulated sugar, drinking water, baking powder, salt and some almonds petals (optional).
2. We turn on the oven to warm up (190 degrees). Wash dried apricots (150 grams), put them in a bowl and pour 200 milliliters of boiling water. Let it stand and swell for now.
3. Sift 240 grams of premium wheat flour into a separate bowl, add 1 tablespoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix everything thoroughly so that the dry ingredients are evenly distributed throughout the mixture.
4. Put 60 grams of soft butter in a bowl for kneading the dough. Add 180 grams of sugar and beat everything well with a mixer.
5. One at a time, add chicken eggs to the butter and continue to beat the mass until relatively homogeneous.
6. When the dried apricots become soft enough, we punch it together with the water in which the dried fruits were steamed using a submersible blender.
7. We shift the dried apricot puree into the oil mixture.
8. Stir, then pour in the dry mixture from step 3.
9. Mix all the ingredients quickly. The result is a very delicate and airy muffin dough.
10. We put it in portioned molds for about 2/3 of the volume. I have a silicone mold, but I still lightly greased it with vegetable oil. It is most convenient to lay out the dough with an ice cream spoon - it turns out the same.
11. Sprinkle the dough with almond petals if desired. We put the future muffins in a preheated oven and bake for about 25-30 minutes at 190 degrees on an average level. I have a gas oven, bottom heating, no convection. The time it takes to make the muffins depends on your oven.
12. You can check the readiness of the dried apricot muffins with a wooden skewer or a toothpick, which should come out of the dough completely dry. Just do not overdry the baked goods, otherwise they will not be so tender. A total of 12 medium-sized muffins are obtained from the specified amount of ingredients used. I baked everything at the same time (in a silicone mold and separate portion molds).
13. Delicate, airy, fragrant and delicious muffins with dried apricots are ready. Friends, cook for your health and bon appetit!