Categories: Sweet Breads- Coffee Cakes- Tortes

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp. grated orange peel
• 1 1/2 cups chopped dried apricots
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly butter eight 4 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 1 1/2 inch (1 cup) miniature loaf pans.

2. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

3. In another bowl, stir together the yogurt, butter, eggs, vanilla and orange peel. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the yogurt mixture, stir just to combine. Stir in the apricots and walnuts. Scrape the batter into the prepared pans and smooth the tops of the loaves.

4. Bake the loaves in a 400 degree oven 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one loaf comes out clean. Transfer the pans to a wire rack. Cool for 10 minutes before removing the breads from the pans and finish cooling the loaves on the rack. Cool the breads completely before serving.

5. Store the completely cooled breads in an airtight container at cool room temperature. Wrap the loaves in plastic wrap and then foil before freezing.

6. makes 8 miniature loaves

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