Dessert, Apricot Recipes

Two-layer apricot bars with a buttery shortbread crust and a brown sugar apricot topping. Dried apricots are simmered, pureed, and baked into chewy, fruity squares.

No-bake cheesecake with apricot purée spiked with brandy and apricot liqueur, set with gelatin and folded with whipped cream in a pecan crust.

Apricot drop cookies fold chopped dried apricots into a quick brown-sugar batter brightened with orange juice and zest. Soft, chewy drops with bursts of fruit in every bite.

Silky apricot whip made with overnight-soaked dried apricots, honey, and low-fat yogurt. Four ingredients, a blender, and just 54 calories per serving.

Microwave baked apples stuffed with dried apricot, walnuts, brown sugar, and butter, cooked in orange juice. Ready in under 15 minutes with a rich, fruity filling worth trying.

No-bake chocolate haystacks with coconut, dried apricots, oats, and chopped nuts. A stovetop candy that boils for 30 seconds, drops onto wax paper, and sets as it cools.

Favorite Molasses Apricot Cookies with Icing recipe

Frozen apricot yogurt made with dried apricots simmered in orange juice and blended with low-fat yogurt. Just 4 ingredients, no ice cream maker needed.

Fruit basket cookies packed with candied cherries, dates, dried apricots, golden raisins, pecans, and walnuts in a brown sugar butter dough. A chewy, fruited holiday cookie.

Homemade apple fruit leather sweetened naturally, spiced with a pinch of cinnamon, dried slow in a low oven. A pantry snack with no added sugar or preservatives.

Layers of soft pound cake soaked in sweet Marsala wine, lush apricot purée, and silky vanilla custard come together in this classic British trifle that's easier to make than you think.

Fruit tzimmes with mixed dried fruits, brown rice, and honey, thickened with a traditional einbren roux and broiled until golden. A warm Jewish holiday dessert.

No-bake apricot cheesecake on a toasted oat crust with brandy-laced cream cheese filling, folded with chopped apricots and whipped cream. Glazed with warm apricot preserves and brandy.

Gingerbread cream pie with a spiced molasses cake split and filled with an apricot-vanilla custard set with gelatin. A unique two-component dessert for gingerbread lovers.

Pajas are flourless coconut cookies loaded with butter-toasted pecans, dried apricots, and chopped chocolate, bound with sweetened condensed milk. No eggs, no flour, all flavor.

Polynesian bombe is a three-layer frozen dessert of mango, raspberry, and lime ices molded into a showstopper dome. Make-ahead tropical finale with zero baking.