Apricot Stars

Name: Apricot Stars
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 60 ml/4 tbsp apricot jam; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup icing (confectioners’) sugar; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 12 drained canned apricot halves; 1 egg yolk; 30 ml/2 tbsp water; 1 quantity Danish pastry — see Apple and Sultana Danish Pastries; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup ground almonds

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

About

When in season these light pastries can be decorated with fresh apricots.

Ingredients

1 quantity Danish pastry — see Apple and Sultana Danish Pastries

Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Roll out the pastry into a rectangle measuring 40 × 30cm/16 × 12in. Cut into 10cm/4in squares. On each square, make a 2.5cm/1in diagonal cut from each corner towards the centre. Mix the ground almonds, icing sugar and egg together. Divide the filling among the pastry squares, placing it in the centre.
Beat the egg yolk for the glaze with half the wate