Nutty Apricot White Chocolate So Decadencce Bars Recipes

Steps:

• Make apricot filling:
• In a 1 1/2-quart heavy saucepan combine apricots, granulated sugar, and water and simmer, covered, 15 minutes. Remove lid and simmer mixture, stirring and mashing apricots, until excess liquid is evaporated and filling is thickened. Stir in vanilla.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. and grease and flour an 8-inch-square baking pan, knocking out excess flour.
• Make chocolate chip mixture:
• In a shallow baking pan toast pecans in middle of oven until golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes, and cool. In a food processor pulse pecans, flour, brown sugar, and salt until pecans are coarsely chopped. Add chocolate chips and butter and pulse until pecan mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Press about half of chocolate chip mixture onto bottom of prepared baking pan and spread evenly with apricot filling. Crumble remaining chocolate chip mixture evenly over apricot filling, pressing it down slightly, and bake confection in middle of oven 1 hour, or until golden. Cool confection completely in pan on a rack. Sprinkle confection with confectioners' sugar and cut into 16 bars.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Lightly grease cookie sheet with shortening or cooking spray. In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until mixture looks like fine crumbs.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons apricots for topping. Stir remaining apricots and 1/3 cup vanilla baking chips into crumbly mixture. Stir in egg and just enough half-and-half so dough leaves side of bowl and forms a ball.
• On lightly floured surface, knead dough lightly 10 times. Pat or roll into 8-inch round on cookie sheet. Cut into 8 wedges, but do not separate.
• Bake 14 to 16 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; carefully separate wedges.
• Place melted baking chips in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut off small corner of bag; pipe small amount of melted chips over scones. Sprinkle with reserved 2 tablespoons apricots. Pipe remaining melted chips over scones. Serve warm or cool.

Steps:

• 1. First pre-heat the oven to 375F. Then in a large bowl stir all the cookie base ingredients until soft dough forms. Then spread the dough into the bottom of an ungreased 13x9 inch baking pan. Then bake for about 10 to 15 mins or until set. Then let cool for about 10 mins.
• 2. Next in a large bowl beat the almond paste & sugar with an electric mixer on low speed until crumbly but blended. Then add in the chopped apricots & beat on low speed just until fully combined. Then add in the cream cheese, 2 eggs & the lemon juice. Beat on medium speed until well mixed. Then pour over the warm cookie bottom. Then bake for about 20 to 25 mins or until set. Let cool for about 30 mins.
• 3. Then place the chocolate chips in a small bowl. In a 1 quart sacepan heat the whipping cream just to about boiling over low heat. Make sure to stir occasionally & then pour over the chips. Then let snd for about 1 min. Stir until the chips have melted & the mixture is smooth. Then Pour & spread evenly over the filling. Sprinkle with the sliced almonds. Refrigerate for about 2 hours or until set. Then cut into 9 rows by 4 rows to make the bars. Store in the refrigerator.