Bookstore Cafe Apricot Squares

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These are the squares that inspired Marcy Goldman to go a baker: a airy tartlike pastry basal with a tangy, agleam apricot filling, past shredded frozen dough connected the apical and a dusting of confectioners' sweetener to finish. She named them "Bookstore Cafe" due to the fact that she thinks they're befitting a cozy publication store that serves dessert.

They bash instrumentality a fewer hours of chilling and prep time, but they are good worthy the effort.

STORE: Wrap the baked squares individually successful wax insubstantial and store astatine country somesthesia successful an airtight container, oregon frost the baked panful arsenic a azygous uncut piece. The filling whitethorn beryllium frozen indefinitely; the dough whitethorn beryllium frozen, good wrapped, for up to 4 months. The squares whitethorn beryllium assembled and frozen, unbaked and well-wrapped, for 2 months. Reapply confectioners' sweetener aft frozen baked squares are thawed.

Adapted from "A Passion for Baking," by Marcy Goldman (Oxmoor House, 2007).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 16-24 squares

For the dough

2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cupful sugar
1 spoon baking powder
1/4 spoon salt
1/4 cupful crushed walnuts (optional)
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
2 tablespoons rootlike shortening
2 ample eggs
1 spoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons to 5 tablespoons dense cream

For the filling

3/4 cupful freshly squeezed orangish foodstuff (free of pulp)
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed citrus juice
4 cups dried unsulphured unsweetened apricots, coarsely chopped
1/3 cupful sugar

For assembly

Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Nutritional Facts

Per quadrate (based connected 24)

Calories
134
Fat
6 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
17 g
Sodium
197 mg
Cholesterol
31 mg
Protein
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "A Passion for Baking," by Marcy Goldman (Oxmoor House, 2007).

Tested by Randy Richter.

Published March 12, 2026