These are ideal breakfast cookies – LOTR-Emily’s Apricot Bars. I don’t know if words can express how much I love them…but clearly I’ll try.
They’re in the shape of biscotti, but with a scone-ish texture and mild sweetness (minus the usual scone-y dryness). A biscotti-shaped cookie-scone? Yes. That’s exactly what this is. They have dried apricots for chew and walnuts for crunch, and since LORT-Emily uses whole wheat flour, I can easily convince myself they’re semi-healthy.
They go really well with coffee - definitely the kind of cookies that get me excited about the morning!
Apricot Bars
(Go here for the printable recipe.)
Directions:
They’re in the shape of biscotti, but with a scone-ish texture and mild sweetness (minus the usual scone-y dryness). A biscotti-shaped cookie-scone? Yes. That’s exactly what this is. They have dried apricots for chew and walnuts for crunch, and since LORT-Emily uses whole wheat flour, I can easily convince myself they’re semi-healthy.
They go really well with coffee - definitely the kind of cookies that get me excited about the morning!
Apricot Bars
(Go here for the printable recipe.)
- 1 cup butter at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda, blended with 2 teaspoons cold water
- 3 c whole wheat flour, 1.5 c white flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
- 8 oz chopped dried apricots
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Directions:- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Beat in 3 eggs.
- Mix in 1 tsp baking soda that is blended with 2 tsps cold water.
- Add flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
- Fold in dried apricots, and chopped walnuts.
- Chill the dough for at least 1 hour, then shape into two long rectangular logs about ¾ inch thick on one greased baking sheet. Bake 25 min at 350 degrees.
- Cool for 10 minutes, then slice the cookies into bars.
- Spread the bars on a cookie sheet and bake for another 15 minutes until they are almost beginning to get brown around the edges, but still chewy in the middle.
- Cool completely before storing.
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