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Homemade Apricot Yeasted Coffeecake

August 5, 2011 By Jimmie Quick 7 Comments

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake

How does that look? That’s my apricot coffeecake. Actually I’m not sure if I should call it a pastry or coffeecake or bread. I can honestly say that it’s delicious, though!

This pastry has three parts.

Dough

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Just use your standard sweet yeast dough recipe. What you use for cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls will work. I used about half whole wheat flour plus a generous sprinkling of ground flax seed.

Apricot filling

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake filling

I had fresh apricots which I pitted, roughly chopped, and cooked with a minute amount of water and sugar until it was a thick paste, similar to baby food. I also got a bit sneaky and put in about 3/4 cup of pureed carrots. Actually, they cut the tartness of the apricots, enriched the bright orange color, and added some healthy sweetness. The carrot was a real stroke of serendipity!

Cream cheese filling

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake cream cheese filling

A had a package of partially eaten cream cheese (80% there) to which I added confectioners sugar, some flour, half an egg (save the other half for later), and a bit of vanilla.

My cream cheese layer virtually disappeared after baking, so next time I would use two entire packages.

I rolled my dough into large rectangles and placed it onto a baking sheet.

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake dough

Then I spread on the cream cheese filling.

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake spread cream cheese

Then I added the fruit filling and cut my dough into strips on the side. I like to use kitchen scissors for that.

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake filling on dough

Then I wrap the strips, alternating sides (like making a calzone) to enclose the filling in the dough.

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake ready to bake

I brushed the pastry with beaten egg, and baked it.

Voila! I made two huge pastries, so there was lots to share with guests and my dear mom. Sprite was a bit miffed about the secret ingredient — carrots– but she liked the pastry anyway. Everyone who tasted it said it was delicious.

Homemade Apricot  Yeasted Coffeecake sliced

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Filed Under: cooking Tagged With: apricot, bread, how to, pastry, recipe

Comments

  1. Paige says

    August 5, 2011 at 9:40 am

    That looks very yummy and so pretty. Thanks for sharing it!

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  2. Sally says

    August 5, 2011 at 10:32 am

    My heavens, this looks heavenly! Thank you for sharing!

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  3. Charlotte Mason in the City says

    August 5, 2011 at 10:45 am

    I have apricots, I have carrots, I have cream cheese….and I have hungry kids. I’m so going to make something like this. Thanks for the idea!

    Reply
  4. Julie says

    August 12, 2011 at 6:10 am

    Looks tasty! I like cream cheese in just about anything. I just made a strawberry shortcake that was delicious. I usually put strawberries on top of angel food cake, but I decided to try the more biscuit-shortcake style, and it was very good. It cut down on the sweetness, so it wasn’t as overwhelming.

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  5. Dianne says

    August 1, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    I would like your recipes for the calzone and the apricot cheese bread … Are there print friendly recipes for these. They look great am looking forward to trying them…thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
  6. cindy says

    February 10, 2014 at 5:32 am

    thanks so much for this recipe! I used it as inspiration and made one with a home made stewed apple, sultana & cinnamon filling…..it was DELICIOUS! The husband and kids were begging for more 🙂

    Reply
  7. sharon says

    August 22, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    Thank you for sharing. I will definitely make them in the near future.

    Reply

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