Cakes are an international dish! It makes no sense to try to find out in which particular country the pies were first made. Baking recipes with different fillings are present in the culinary tradition of any people in the world.
The first pies were baked with meat. The dough in them served as a kind of dishes and was not suitable for food. The crust baked to the state of stone was broken and they only ate the filling.
Talk about the ingredients
The main secrets of a delicious cake are this well-heated oven and the right ingredients.
Stuffing plays a huge role. In no case sweet cakes with berries and fruits can be prepared from beaten, rotted or overripe fruits. To make a cake with apricots from puff pastry, you need to take only beautiful and ripe apricots, as in the photo below.
Puff pastry cannot be cooked without butter. When choosing it, it is necessary to take into account that for sweet pastries it is better to use a natural plant product or good butter.
Italian Apricot Dessert Recipe
Italian cuisine is famous for desserts. A spectacular open Italian pie with puff pastry apricots will decorate any table and become the favorite dessert of the whole family.
To prepare puff pastry, you will need the following ingredients:
- flour - a glass for dough and 2 spoons for separation;
- butter - about 50 g for dough and 100 g for separation;
- dry yeast - a standard bag;
- half a glass of water;
- sugar;
- egg;
- salt.
Puff pastry is prepared in two stages. First, knead the flour, water, a little lemon juice, eggs and a salt solution. The dough is left at room temperature for 1 hour. Separately, knead the butter and flour until smooth and put in the cold for 20 minutes.
The second stage is rolling out the dough. The number of layers in the dough depends on rolling. Professional chefs can make dough with 256 layers.
The dough is rolled out in the form of a rectangular layer 2 cm wide, on top of 2/3 of the area, evenly spread cold butter. The layer is folded with an envelope and carefully rolled to a thickness of 1 cm, then folded four times and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. The steps are repeated until the required number of layers is obtained.
For filling a pie from puff pastry with canned apricots, you will need:
- can of apricots;
- apricot jam or jam;
- sugar (optional).
The oven should be heated to 200 degrees. The dough is rolled into a circle to fit the shape. Baking paper must be greased with oil and put on the bottom of the mold. Smudge the jam with a thin layer according to the dough, spread the halves of canned apricots on top and sprinkle them with sugar. The cake is baked for half an hour.
Puff pastry pie recipe with apricots and vanilla
Desserts with apricots and peaches are one of the most favorite among children and adults. For this delicious pie with apricots from puff pastry you will need:
- 2 cups chopped apricots;
- 100 g of vanilla confectionery sugar;
- a glass of orange juice without pulp;
- 2 peaches without skin;
- lemon juice half the fruit;
- 1.5 cups of peeled and toasted almonds;
- puff pastry;
- vanilla extract ;
- egg yolk.
You need to mix apricots, vanilla sugar and orange juice. Apricots are boiled in sugar over low heat, the juice should thicken and turn into syrup. Sliced peach, lemon juice, vanilla extract are added to the filling and kept on the stove for another 3 minutes before removing the container from the fire. 1 cup of almonds is added to the mixture and allowed to cool at room temperature.
The dough is divided into 2 parts and two rectangular layers for the mold are prepared. In a greased form, spread one part of the dough, pour fruit filling on top and cover with a second sheet of dough. It is necessary to beautifully blind the edges and make holes in the upper layer of the dough. The cake is greased with egg yolk and put in an oven preheated to 230 degrees. After 15 minutes, the dessert is taken out of the oven, sprinkled with almonds and set back for 10 minutes.
Recipe for puff pastry cake with apricots from the finished dough
This recipe is perfect for breakfast with coffee. Making a dessert will not take long if you use ready-made dough from the store.
Today you can not waste time and effort on preparing puff pastry in accordance with all the rules. Layer cake with apricots from the finished dough will come out no worse than from a handmade one. Of course, there will not even be 100 layers at the base, but the taste of the dessert will not be affected.
To make a dessert you will need:
- a pack of dough;
- 4-5 fresh apricots;
- a tablespoon of corn starch;
- sugar (optional);
- lemon juice from 1/4 lemon;
- almond extract 1 tsp;
- an egg beaten with a tablespoon of water;
- icing sugar for sprinkling.
It is necessary to immediately put the oven on warming up, 220 degrees will be enough. Sliced apricots, starch, sugar, lemon juice and almond extract should be placed in a container and mix well. Gently roll the finished puff pastry into two squares. Put the dough on a greased baking sheet, place the filling in the center and cover everything with a second square. Glue the edges of the pie and grease the baking surface with the egg. Dessert should be baked 20 minutes until cooked.