Recipe Book

Desserts
Apricot cream
Ingredients for 2 people:
• 250 g apricots
• 100 ml white wine
• 2 – 3 tablespoons sugar
• 150 g mascarpone or quark (cream cheese)
• 250 ml cream
• 2 tablespoons apricot liqueur or cherry brandy
Method:
Mix the apricots with the white wine and sugar
in a bowl and select the Apricot Cream
programme. Leave to cool.
Beat the apricot compote to blend it thoroughly
or puree using a hand blender. Stir the
mascarpone or quark into the puree one
spoonful at a time.
Beat the cream until still and carefully stir into
the apricot cream. Add apricot liqueur or cherry
brandy to give the apricot crème a gentle scent.
Put the crème in a cool place.
• Time in the appliance: 6 minutes
• Shelf position: bottom glass
After baking:
Heat up the apricot jam and then spread on the
cake using a brush; then leave to cool. Mix
together icing sugar, cinnamon and hot water;
then spread on the cake. Then sprinkle flaked
almonds immediately onto the glazed surface of
the cake.
Amaretto-peaches
Ingredients for 2 people:
• 4 tinned peach halves
• 50 g amaretti
• 1 heaped tablespoon sugar (1)
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon Vin Santo (Italian dessert wine) or
Grand Marnier
• flakes of butter
• 100 ml crème fraîche
• 1 tablespoon sugar (2)
Method:
Drain the peaches well and place in a well
buttered baking dish. Break up the amaretti
biscuits and mix with the sugar (1) and cocoa
powder. Add Vin Santo to form a thick paste.
Shape into 4 balls and put into the peach halves.
Serve the warm peaches with crème fraîche
sweetened with sugar (2).
• Time in the appliance: 4 minutes
• Shelf position: bottom glass
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