Apricot Dumplings
Ingredients
Ingredients for 12 Dumplings
- 1¾ tbsp 25 g Butter
- 2 tbsp Confectioner’s sugar
- 12 oz 350 g Quark
- 3.5 oz 100 g White bread crumbs
- 2 Eggs
- Lemon zest
- Rum
- Dash of salt
- 12 Apricots
- 12 Sugar cubes
- Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
For the Sugar Crumbs
- 7 tbsp 100 g Butter
- 3.5 oz 100 g Breadcrumbs
- 3 tsp 50 g Granulated sugar
- Dash of cinnamon
- Dash of vanilla sugar
Instructions
- For the quark batter, cream the butter with confectioner’s sugar, add the eggs, then mix in the quark, lemon zest, salt, breadcrumbs, and some rum.
- Let sit for about 2 hours.
- If the dough is too sticky, mix in 2 more tablespoons of breadcrumbs.
- Cut open the apricots, remove the pit, replace with a sugar cube, and wrap in dough to create nice round dumplings.
- Place in boiling salt water and cook for about 15 minutes.
- For the sugar crumbs, melt the butter and brown the crumbs with the sugar.
- Flavor with cinnamon and vanilla sugar.
- Roll the dumplings in the crumbs and serve dusted with confectioner’s sugar.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
you can also pit the apricots by pushing them out with the end of a cooking spoon and pushing in the sugar cube.
