Sweet pastries with apricots

Apricots are so bright and sunny! Any pastries with apricots are incredibly tasty: pastries with sour milk and bagels with dried apricots, kefir cake with apricots or shortcrust pastry, biscuit, or cake with a layer of apricot jam, cheesecake or cheesecake. Our great recipe for baking with apricots - grated cake, is very simple. Does not have time to cool down properly, as it disappears from the kitchen!

Ingredients

• 200 g of butter
• 250 g of flour
• 150 g of sugar
• ½ teaspoon of baking soda or baking powder
• 15 apricots (or jam)
• 100 g of walnuts
• 50 g of powdered sugar
• vanilla

Directions

1. In the sifted flour add the soft butter, baking powder, and 1 tbsp. l. sugar, vanilla, baking soda, and knead the dough.
2. Divide the dough into two equal portions. From one part form 6-8 small "sausages" and send them in the freezer for 30-40 minutes.
3. Roll out the second part of the dough thinly and spread it on parchment in a form.
4. From an apricot, we take out stones, cut them into thin slices and spread them on top of the dough, and sprinkle them with sugar.
5. Chop walnuts and sprinkle with apricots.
6. Remove the dough from the freezer and rub evenly on a grater directly on the apricots with nuts.
7. Bake at 200 ° C for 30-40 minutes.
8. The finished cake with apricots is cut hot into pieces. Then remove from the pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar.