Soft dried apricots candies with spices

1 . Stage

Rinse apricots and pour boiling water for three hours.

2 . Stage

Squeeze the juice of half a lemon.

3 . Stage

Rinse dried cherries in cold water and pour room temperature water over them (so that the cherries stay firm and do not melt). Set aside.

4 . Stage

Here apricots have already stood their proper three hours. Drain, squeeze, and mince together with the ginger and cloves. Add powdered sugar, the juice of half a lemon and starch. Stir. (You should judge from the density of the apricots stuffing, when you add the juice and starch, so that it is not liquid in the end.

5 . Stage

Put baking paper on the baking tray, grease it lightly with vegetable oil. Put a thin layer of apricots paste and put it in the oven. I dried at 100 degrees for a long time (I have a blower oven)))

6 . Stage

Anyway, look in the oven periodically, and finally at one point you'll see that everything is dried out.

7 . Stage

Lift the edges of the plate from one edge and roll up a roll like this while still warm, but not hot.

8 . Stage

Without pressing down hard, roll in coconut. (You can lightly moisten with lemon juice beforehand)

9 . Stage

Cut into portions-medallions about 1 cm wide. Then use a knife to pull apart the center of each medallion (it will come apart easily, since there is the beginning of our roll)

10 . Stage

We take a cherry, drain the water. And now we insert it into the hollows in our candies. At the same time we adjust the shape of the candy with our fingers.

11 . Stage

We put it on parchment, cover it with the same parchment. And leave to "ripen" and dry out for a couple of days.

12 . Stage

And then this is what you get))) Bright, healthy candy! And bon appetit!