Homemade Apricot Newtons | Healthy Apricot Cookie Bars Recipe
Bake these delicious apricot cookie bars at home with simple ingredients. Apricot Newtons are soft and flakey biscuit filled with dried apricot jam inside. A healthy, fruity snack that’s perfect for tea time and loved by both kids and adults.
Ingredients
For filling
- 150 gm dry apricots
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp ginger powder
For making newton sheets
- 100 gm jowar flour sorghum
- 60 gm whole wheat flour
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 120 gm butter unsalted
- 60 gm khandsari sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp vinegar
Instructions
Apricot filling
- First wash apricot nicely with water and soak in water just enough to cover them and leave aside for 3-4 hours.
- After 4 hours, strain out water and keep it aside. Now cut apricot into small pices and transfer to a grinder jar. Add little water from the strained water and churn it into a coarse mixture.
- Take a pan add ground coarse mixture of the apricot, leftover soaked water, 2 tbsp brown sugar and start cooking on a low flame till all the moisture absorbed and it become thick mixture.
- Lastly add ginger powder and mix well. Take off from the heat and let it cool completely.
- Once cooled, transfer to an air tight container and put it in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
For making newton sheets
- Beat butter in a bowl . Then add sugar and beat together till the mixture become light and fluffy.
- In another bowl sieve jowar flour, wheat flour, corn flour,baking powder and salt. Mix well once.
- Now Add vinegar, vanilla essence and dry flour mixture to the sugar butter mixture and gently fold it. Do not knead. Just combine to make a dough.
- Give a square shape to the dough and put in a cling film. Now refrigerate it for 15-20 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, take out the dough from the frefrigerator. Meanwhile preheat oven at 160 degrees Celsius for about 12-15 minutes.
- Take out the apricot filling from refrigerator . Transfer it to a piping bag and make a big whole. Keep it aside.
- Divide the dough into four pieces.Transfer a piece and put it on a cling film and cover it with another piece of cling film. Gently roll it to 1/8 inch thickness. Give it a shape of rectanagle with 3.5 inch width and remove the extra part.
- Now fill out the centre portion with apricot filling. Gently take one side and turn it on the filling and then turn it again to close the ends. Gently press and tap the joining to make it smooth.
How to bake newtons
- Cut into 2 inches slices. Transfer to a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Similarly, make slices from rest of the dough pieces and transfer to the baking tray.
- Bake them for 20-22 minutes or till they become golden in colour in the preheated oven.
- Once done, take them out from oven and let them cool completely on a wire rack.
- Store them in a air tight container. They stay good for 2-3 weeks.
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Notes
1. After preparing dough for the cookies, refrigerate them for at least 20-30 minutes which helps in giving flakey cookies.
2. You can bake the whole log filled with apricot jam and cut it into pieces once it is baked.
3. they stay good for 7-10 days at room temperature, for a longer shelf life put them in the refrigerator.
4. Cool completely and serve a day after they are baked.