Filled butter cake with apricots
CA. 10 pieces | preparation: ca. 15 min | oven: 15-20 min
Ingredients
250 g flour + extra
175 g caster sugar
Salt
225 g cold butter + butter for greasing
100 g dried soaked apricots
50 g sliced almonds
2 tbsp ginger syrup
1 tbsp milk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200 ° c. Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Cut the butter into pieces, scoop them through the flour mixture and cut them with two knives small. Knead everything with a cool hand to a cohesive ball of dough (can also in the food processor).
Cut the apricots finely and mix them in a bowl with the almonds and ginger syrup.
Grease a boterkoek form with butter, press half of dough in it and divide the apricot mixture over it. Roll the rest of the dough out onto a floured work surface to a piece the size of the form and
place it on the stuffing. Press the edges firmly.
Trek with the blunt side of a knife a diamond pattern in the dough and brush with the milk. Bake the butter cake in the oven in 15-20 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
Take the butter cake from the oven, let it cool in the form and cut it just before serving in dots.
CA. 10 pieces | preparation: ca. 15 min | oven: 15-20 min
Ingredients
250 g flour + extra
175 g caster sugar
Salt
225 g cold butter + butter for greasing
100 g dried soaked apricots
50 g sliced almonds
2 tbsp ginger syrup
1 tbsp milk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200 ° c. Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Cut the butter into pieces, scoop them through the flour mixture and cut them with two knives small. Knead everything with a cool hand to a cohesive ball of dough (can also in the food processor).
Cut the apricots finely and mix them in a bowl with the almonds and ginger syrup.
Grease a boterkoek form with butter, press half of dough in it and divide the apricot mixture over it. Roll the rest of the dough out onto a floured work surface to a piece the size of the form and
place it on the stuffing. Press the edges firmly.
Trek with the blunt side of a knife a diamond pattern in the dough and brush with the milk. Bake the butter cake in the oven in 15-20 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
Take the butter cake from the oven, let it cool in the form and cut it just before serving in dots.