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unsalted butter cream cheese salt flour walnuts chocolate sugar apricot cinnamon orange butter egg yolk water sugar
Viewed: 29 - Published at: 2 years agoIngredients
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold cut in pieces
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup walnuts or 1 cup pecans
- 6 ounces semisweet chocolate pieces
- 12 cup granulated sugar
- 34 cup dried apricot
- 1 12 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 orange, zest of, grated
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon water
- 3 tablespoons sugar
Method
- Beat together the cream cheese and butter until the cream cheese is softened but the butter is still chunky.
- On low speed slowly add the salt and flour.
- Beat until crumbly and beginning to clump together.
- Divide dough in two equal pieces.
- Flatten each into a rectangle and chill in refrigerator several hours.
- Meanwhile make filling.
- In food processor separately pulse chocolate, nuts and apricots until very finely chopped.
- Then combine them in a large bowl with remaining filling ingredients.
- Stir by hand until of uniform consistency.
- Between two sheets of waxed paper or parchment paper roll one chilled rectangle of dough to 13 x 9 inches.
- It helps if you draw a 13x9 rectangle on one sheet of your paper.
- Line the bottom of a 13x9 pan (lined with parchment paper) with one rectangle of dough.
- Spread filling over and gently pat to evenly spread.
- Roll second dough in same manner as first.
- Lay dough over filling, trimming as needed.
- Mix egg yolk and water.
- Brush over top layer of dough.
- Sprinkle with garnish sugar.
- Bake at 350F 30-35 minutes until golden.
- Remove to rack and cool completely before cutting.
