TOP 10 Apricot Recipes
The Summer Fruits Are Cute, Fuzzy, and so Delicious
1. Apricot and Cream Cheese Pastry
This Apricot and Cream Cheese Pastry may sound unusual but I really love the combination. Along with the smooth cream cheese, I use vanilla extract and confectioners’ sugar to soften the flavor and spread it on top of individually cut squares of butter puff pastry and finally I add apricot…
Ingredients for Apricot and Cream Cheese Pastry:
2 sheets butter Frozen puff pastry
6 tbsp Cream Cheese
1 tsp Vanilla extract
4 tbsp Confectioners’ sugar
8 canned Apricot halves
1 Eggs
2 tbsp Sugar
2 tbsp Apricot jam
2. Apricot Tarte Tatin
I love a good tart tatin recipe and this Apricot Tarte Tatin is one of my favorite desserts to make in summer. A tarte tatin is a French upside-down fruit tart. It is usually made with apples, but I love to try different fruits when I make tarte tatin. The…
Ingredients for Apricot Tarte Tatin:
2¾ oz Caster sugar
1½ oz Unsalted butter
10½ oz Apricots
13-oz Frozen puff pastry
3. Apricot and Lime Galette
I love making this Apricot and Lime Galette when guests come over in summer. It requires a bit of advance planning because it needs a lot of chilling time. I find it really helps to manage the dough in the summer if you chill it between each step. Start by…
Ingredients for Apricot and Lime Galette:
FOR THE PASTRY
1 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Sugar
1/2 cup Butter
½ tsp Apple cider vinegar
4 tbsp WaterFOR THE FILLING
Zest of 2 Lime
2 tbsp Granulated sugar
6 Apricots
2 tbsp All-purpose flour
¼ tsp Ground nutmeg
pinch Salt
4. Apricots and Cream Thumbprint Scones
These Apricots and Cream Thumbprint Scones are deliciously, soft and dense dried apricot scones filled with a creamy, white chocolate chip dough and a teaspoonful of apricot jam in the center. The complimentary flavors from the fruity apricot with the light white chocolate are a heavenly match making these scones…
Ingredients for Apricots and Cream Thumbprint Scones:
1 cup Apricot jam
1 tsp Cornstarch
3½ cups All-purpose flour
½ cup Granulated sugar
2 tbsp Baking powder
¾ tsp Salt
2½ cups Heavy cream
¾ cup Dried apricots
½ cup White chocolate
5. Glazed Apricot Breakfast Bread
A few years ago, I tasted Glazed Apricot Breakfast Bread for the first time and I just knew I had to learn how to make it. I was in a hotel in Paris and every morning, the breakfast buffet table would be heaving under the weight of all the freshly…
Ingredients for Glazed Apricot Breakfast Bread:
3 cups and 2 tbsp Bread flour
¼ cup Golden Caster sugar
¼ oz sachet Active dry yeast
6 tbsp and 2 tsp Milk
4 Eggs
⅔ cup Butter
2 pods Cardamon
3 tbsp Muscovado sugar
4 Apricots
to taste Icing sugar
to taste Flaked almonds
6. Skinny Apricot Loaf Cake
I love a good treat and when it’s on the healthier plate, I get even more excited, especially with this Skinny Apricot Loaf Cake. Using whole-wheat flour, brown sugar and Greek yogurt as substitutes to the usual white flour and white sugar combination used for baking. I love to use…
Ingredients for Skinny Apricot Loaf Cake:
2 cups Whole wheat flour
½ cup Brown sugar
2 Eggs
¾ cup Greek yogurt
1½ tsp Baking soda
1½ tsp Baking powder
¼ tsp Sea salt
1 lb Apricots
1 tsp Vanilla extract
½ tbsp Ginger
7. Apricot and Orange Blossom Jam
Create the perfect homemade jam with this Apricot and Orange Blossom Jam recipe. A tasteful combination of apricots and orange blossom extract bringing flavors together to produce a scrumptious sweet and citrus treat to be enjoyed with buttered toast, on a fresh English scone or even on top of any…
Ingredients for Apricot and Orange Blossom Jam :
1 kg Apricots
1 tbsp Orange blossom water
750g Sugar
1 Lemon
Few knobs Butter
8. Winning Apricot Bars
The title of these Winning Apricot Bars says it all really – they are prize winning! No seriously, I entered them in my son’s school charity bake off last year and they won first prize! They are so easy to make too – simply make some dough by creaming some…
Ingredients for Winning Apricot Bars:
¾ cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
1 Large eggs
½ tsp Vanilla extract
2 cups All-purpose flour
¼ tsp Baking powder
1 ⅓ cups Shredded coconut
½ cup Walnuts
10 to 12 ounces Apricot preserves
9. Apricot Coconut Scones
Scrumptious and easy to prepare, these Apricot Coconut Scones are warm and fabulous for afternoon tea or your breakfast treat. A simple scone recipe made with coconut and apricots for a different sort of filling that pairs perfectly with dollops of fresh cream and a sweet, English jam. A quick…
Ingredients for Apricot Coconut Scones:
⅓ cup Coconut
¾ cup Dried apricots
1⅔ cups All-purpose flour
2½ tsp baking powder Baking powder
3 tbsp Sugar
pinch Salt
3 tbsp Butter
½ cup Milk
½ tsp Vanilla extract
1 Eggs
10. Yoghurt Cheesecake with Honey Roasted Apricots
This Yoghurt Cheesecake with Honey Roasted Apricots is a beautiful and rustic, fridge-set cheesecake. With a combination of double cream, yoghurt and soft cheese, gently whisked together and refrigerate to set, this cake is dense yet perfectly light enough too. Decorated with delicious sweet and sticky oven roasted apricots, dripping…
Ingredients for Yoghurt Cheesecake with Honey Roasted Apricots:
FOR THE CHEESECAKE:
75g Butter
200g Custard cream biscuits
250ml Cream
150g Greek yogurt
500g soft Cheese
3 tbsp runny Honey
1 tbsp Vanilla bean pasteFOR THE APRICOTS:
6 ripe Apricots
50g runny Honey
1 small Orange zest
1 tsp Vanilla extract