Apricot Slice
By: Anncoo
Published: Monday, December 19, 2011 - 5:58am

Ingredients




Ingredients:
150g Soft butter
175g Caster sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
1/4 tsp Salt
3 Large eggs
175g Plain flour
100g Dried apricot

Preparation

1 Method: 2 Dice dried apricot and mix with 1 teaspoon plain flour, set aside. 3 Beat soft butter, sugar, salt and vanilla extract till white and fluffy at medium speed. 4 Lower speed add eggs one at a time and beat well until incorporated 5 Stop machine and pour in plain flour and fold well with a rubber spatula. 6 Lastly add in dried apricot and mix well. 7 Pour batter into a 8 inch square tray (lined all sides up) and bake at preheated oven 170C for about 30 mins or skewer inserted comes out clean.

About

Made this simple, delicious and vibrant Apricot Slice for afternoon tea. Everybody loved the light tangy taste of the dried apricot and can't wait for their second helping. I think this would be great to serve on Christmas holidays as you can wrap the Apricot slices and store them in the fridge for about a week and then allow them to cool at room temperature half an hour before serving. As apricot pairs well with almond, I suggest you change the topping to almond flakes because the diced dried apricot almost turned black even I sprinkled them after 15 minutes of baking. Anyway I'm definitely going to make this again ~ A keeper for sure!