Apricot Bread with Almonds Recipe
Ingredients
- 500 gm dried apricots (dried apricots)
- 100 gm ground almonds (you can toast them a little before grinding, to your liking)
- 50 gm of whole raw almonds or a little toasted, as you prefer
- Half a teaspoon of cinnamon
- Grated zest of 1 orange
- Powdered sugar for coating
- 1 dash of aniseed or dry brandy (also you can use honey, or use both)
- 1 hit of ground cloves
- Sesame and aniseed (a teaspoon of each one)
PREPARATION of dried apricot and almond bread
- Soak the dried apricots in warm water for half an hour and chop them to taste (you can use a thermomix or a food processor, although I like to leave them with a coarse texture).
- Mix with the ground almonds and the rest of the ingredients stirring well and let stand in the refrigerator to cool the mixture and compact.
- Form round buns and flatten them as 2 cm thick cakes.
- Put some whole almonds inside and cover with more mixture.
- Once the cakes are formed, roll them in powdered sugar or put them between wafers or glossy baking paper.
- The dried apricot bread is wrapped in cling film and stored in the refrigerator with a weight on top for a couple of days before consumption.
TIPS
To make this dried apricot bread you can use hazelnuts instead of almonds. It is convenient to use oiled latex gloves so that it does not stick to your hands.