Apricot crumb bars



This was a good year for apricots and a colleague has a tree that�s packed. So a month ago, she picked a few, just enough for us to eat at lunch breaks and for her to offer me a jar. I took the jar home and promised my colleagues that I'll make crumb bars with apricot jam filling. But as you know, summer time is always full of activities, family and friends come from abroad and unfortunately I find little time to spend in the kitchen. I had hundreds of messages requesting the crumb bars and I was always making excuses and nagging about the fact that there's no time to bake, I'm such a bad liar :).
Yesterday, I finished work and headed home directly. I confess I was tired and all I wanted was a good cup of coffee on the balcony as the sun goes down, but I said I'd probably have to make those crumb bars and surprise the girls. The results were excellent, they loved them and requested for more!! Oops!!!


Ingredients: Makes 16 squares

2 sticks (225 g) unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp  salt
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup apricot jam or preserves

Heat oven to 350�F (180�C). Grease an 8-inch square baking dish.

Combine the flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt. Add the butter and mix with your fingers until crumbly. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and mix until the dough comes together but is still crumbly.

Use your fingertips to press half of the dough evenly into the baking dish, pushing the dough up about 1/4 inch around the edge.

Spread the apricot jam evenly over the crust. Crumble the remaining dough over the top. Bake until golden, about 35 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before cutting.



Ingr�dients: 16 carr�s
225 g de beurre froid coup� en d�s
250 g farine
65 g sucre
55 g sucre roux
1 cac de levure chimique
1/4 cac de sel 
1 jaune d'�uf
1 cac d'extrait de vanille
1 tasse de confiture d'abricot

Pr�chauffez le four � 180�C. Beurrez un moule carr�.

M�langez la farine, les 2 sucres, la levure et le sel dans un saladier. Ajoutez le beurre et avec vos doigts m�langez jusqu'� ce que le m�lange soit granuleux. Ajoutez le jaune d'�uf et l'extrait de vanille et m�langez jusqu'� obtenir la consistance d'une sorte de �crumble�.

�talez la moiti� de la p�te dans le moule.

R�partissez la confiture d'abricot sur toute la surface de la tarte et saupoudrez le dessus des �miettes� de crumble (l'autre moiti� de la p�te). Enfournez pour 35 minutes. Laissez refroidir 10 mn avant de couper en carr�s.

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