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!