Cover with apricot liqueur, dust with confectioner’s sugar, and let sit for a short time.
Make small balls out of the marzipan and put them in the place of the pits.
Put the apricots back together.
For the frying batter, mix the flour, wine, oil, egg yolk, and salt until smooth.
Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks with the granulated sugar and fold into the batter.
Heat a good amount of oil in a pan.
Dip the apricots in the batter and fry until golden brown on all sides.
Remove and let drip on paper towels.
Dust with confectioner’s sugar.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
To be sure that the apricot halves will stay together while frying, you can attach them with toothpicks. You can also cut the apricots open carefully on one side and remove the pits that way.
Ingredients for 10–12 Servings For the Sour Ice Cream
2cups500 ml Sour cream
1¼cups150 g
Confectioner’s sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
½cup5 cl Heavy cream
1tsp5 g Pepper, white, ground
For the Pear Soup
18oz500 g Pears, fully ripe
1cup250 ml White wine
1cup250 ml Water 7 tbsp (100 g) Sugar
3tbsp4 cl Pear Brandy
For the Ducat Buchteln
1cup125 g Flour
1cup125 g Flour, coarse
1Egg
3tbsp4 cl Oil Dash of salt
½cup125 ml Milk, lukewarm
2tbsp15 g Yeast
3tbsp25 g Confectioner’s sugar
3½tbsp50 g Butter, melted
Lingonberry compotefor filling
Flour for the work surface
Butter for the pan
Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
Mint to garnish
Instructies
First prepare the ice cream by mixing the sour cream with confectioner’s sugar, lemon juice, heavy cream, and pepper and freezing in the ice cream machine.
For the pear soup, peel, halve, and core the pears.
Stew in a small covered pot with wine, water, and sugar.
Purée in a blender and sieve.
For the buchteln, mix the flours.
Stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk and mix in half of the flour.
Sprinkle more flour on top, cover, and let rise in a warm spot for about 30 minutes.
Beat the rest of the flour, the salt, egg, sugar, and oil into the starter dough with a cooking spoon until the dough comes away from the side of the bowl.
Cover and let rise another 20 minutes.
Roll out to ½in (1. 5 cm) and cut out circles with a 2 ½in (6 cm) cookie cutter.
Spoon lingonberry compote onto each.
Bring the edges together, and dip them in butter.
Place the buchteln with the edges down in a buttered pan.
Preheat oven to 320 °F (160 °C).
Let the buchteln rise for another 20 minutes.
Brush with melted butter and bake for 25 minutes, brushing with butter again halfway through.
Pour the pear soup into dishes, dust the buchteln with confectioner’s sugar and place in the soup.
Scoop the ice cream on top and garnish with mint.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
If the lingonberry compote is too liquid, freeze it briefly before filling.
Mix in half of the flour, sprinkle more flour on top, cover, and let rise in a warm spot for about 30 minutes.
Beat the rest of the flour, the salt, egg, sugar, and oil into the starter dough with a cooking spoon until the dough comes away from the side of the bowl.
Cover and let rise another 20 minutes.
Roll out to ½ in (1 cm) and cut out circles with a 2½ in (6 cm) cookie cutter.
Mix the apricot marmalade with rum and spoon onto each circle.
Bring the edges together, and dip them in butter.
Place the buchteln with the edges down in a buttered pan.
Preheat oven to 350 °F (180 °C).
Let the buchteln rise for another 20 minutes.
Brush with melted butter and bake for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare the vanilla sauce.
Dust the buchteln with confectioner’s sugar before serving with the warm vanilla sauce.