Apricots in puff pastry

April 20, 2013April 20, 2013by Pauline
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Every day, I walk near a French bakery and I am attracked by pastry. So I decided to do one at home, and it was a great success and it didn’t take a long time to do.

SERVES: serveserveserveserve
PREPARATION: 10 minutes
COOK: 20/25 minutes at 200°C
DIFFICULTY: StarStar

What do you need ?

  • a puff pastry ready to use
  • a can of apricots
  • flaked almond
  • 1 egg
  • 75 g sugar
  • 100 g almond powder
  • 50 g butter or light butter

How to do the Apricots in puff pastry?

Prepare the almond cream:

  • Mix together egg, sugar and almond powder
  • Melt the butter and add it to the preparation

! Tip: for melting the butter I put it on the microwaves for 1 minute at 600 W

Prepare the apricots in puff pastry:

  • Cut four square pieces of puff pastry
  • Spread the last preparation on the diagonal of the square
  • Add four half apricots in each square pieces
  • Close nicely the square pieces
  • Spread a mix of half yolk egg with water on each top of square
  • Add flaked almonds on the top of each
  • Add some half teaspoon of sugar on the top
  • Bake them for 20/25 minutes in the oven at 200°C
  • Let them cool down and serve them cold

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