Apricot Tart with Shortcrust Pastry, prepare a delicious Apricot Cake…

from Thomas Sixt
Hi, I am a German Chef and Food Photographer. The imparting of cooking knowledge is my great passion. Everyone can cook for himself and with this website I would like to contribute to its success. Cooking questions I answer you gladly at the end of the articles. Have fun and good luck!

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1. Tarte with Apricots, so tasty!
The cake preparation begins with the shortcrust pastry. So that the cake base gets a great aroma I add vanilla aroma. Sugar, flour, lemon grater, butter and egg should not be missing. Otherwise you can conjure up the vanilla taste with a vanilla pod. Scrape out a pod and pour the pulp into the dough.Vanilla and apricot taste better than garlic pill…Ever heard of “blind baking” … For this you don’t need to blindfold yourself but you need dried peas or beans in addition to the expected ingredients. The dough in the tin needs some weight on top for baking. So the cake dough doesn’t rise too high. This is called blind baking.


As a filling for the cake I copied a lot from the cheesecake. When you have baked the cake forms with the shortcrust pastry, you can dare to try the filling. I put curd cheese into the filling. Only just enough to give the apricots a great taste bed. The details can be found further down in the recipe, for now a quick overview of the ingredients…
- Shortcrust dough in moulds or blind baked in moulds
- Cream as a filling, based on a cheesecake filling
- Apricots and apricot jam with rum



3. Recipe Apricot Tart
Here is the recipe for fine cakes. Have fun with it! For questions you can reach me via the comment function at the bottom of the page.Apricot cake with shortcrust pastry
Prepare the apricot tart step by step with the instructions of professional chef Thomas Sixt.

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Preparation Time
60 Min.
Cook Time
50 Min.
Ingredients
Shortcrust Pastry |
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125 | g | Flour (finely sifted) |
2 | tbsp | icing sugar (finely sifted) |
1 | pinch | Salt |
75 | g | butter (room-warm) |
1 | pc | egg yolk |
1 | tsp | Vanillearoma |
1-2 | tsp | lemon abrasion (an organic lemon) |
200 | g | dried peas or dried beans (to weigh down the shortcrust pastry during baking) |
Cake Filling |
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3 | pc | eggs |
2 | pc | egg yolk |
160 | g | brown sugar |
100 | ml | Cream |
30 | ml | lemon juice |
1 | tbsp | lemon abrasion (an organic lemon) |
250 | g | curd cheese |
1 | tsp | Vanillearoma (Alternatively, I like to use the pulp of a vanilla pod.) |
1 | pinch | mace |
Apricots |
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10 | pc | apricots (untreated and well washed) |
Rum-Apricot-Jam |
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1-2 | tbsp | apricot jam |
1-2 | tsp | rum |
Instruction
Shortcrust Pastry

Sieve the flour and the icing sugar into a bowl. I used a gluten-free flour, I will tell you the brand on request! Form a hollow in the middle.

Pour the egg yolk into the bowl, add the butter, a pinch of salt and the vanilla flavour. Mix the ingredients with your hands. Start in the trough and gradually work your way out. Knead well and form a ball.

Wrap the dough ball for the shortcrust pastry in a plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 200° C. I have prepared my cakes with hot air.
Coat several small moulds or a large cake mould with soft butter.

It is best to roll out the shortcrust pastry between two layers of cling film or baking paper to a thickness of approx. 3 mm.

Put the dough into the mould: For example, cut out round, then insert and complete the sides.

Remove the dough residues at the edge. Cover the dough with baking paper and weigh down with dry peas or beans and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Let the baked short pastry tartes cool in the tin. Remove the peas as soon as possible.

Mix the jam with the rum.

Spread the cake base in the mould with the prepared jam.
Cake Stuffing

Reduce the oven temperature to 150° C. The filling needs less heat for baking and the already baked dough does not tolerate the high heat!
Put the eggs, egg yolk and sugar, cream, lemon juice and lemon grater in a bowl and mix.

Drain the quark on a sieve, then add to the mixture and season with mace and vanilla flavour. Stir the mixture with a whisk until smooth.

Pour the filling into the shortcrust pastry moulds. I filled up to 5 mm below the edge of the dough.
Preparing the Apricots

Wash and dry the apricots. Then halve and pit.

Cut the apricot halves into thin slices and place them on the kitchen board in a fan shape.

Carefully place the apricot stars with a dough card or a smooth turner in the middle of the tartes.

Bake the cake for approx. 40-50 minutes until the filling has stopped. Take them out of the oven and let them cool down. Gently spread the rest of the jam on the fruit. Now arrange nicely and serve.
4. Calories (kcal) Apricot Tart with Shortcrust Pastry, an Overview of Nutritional Values
5. More Recipe Ideas…
with Apricots:
apricot cake with sponge mixture
apricot tart with puff pastry
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lemon muffins
lemon tart
tarte recipe from cookie dough
strawberry tart
cherry cake or cherry pie
cherry tart with puff pastry
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