Cut the apricots into small cubes. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Chop 100 g chocolate
Cream butter, sugar and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Add flour mixture and stir in with a wooden spoon. Fold in apricots, almonds and chopped chocolate
Cut the dough in half. With floured hands, shape the dough halves next to each other on a baking tray lined with baking paper to form loaves approx. 25 cm long and approx. 8 cm wide
Bake in a preheated oven (fan oven: 175 °C) for approx. 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for approx. 20 minutes. Reduce oven temperature (fan oven: 160 °C). Cut the biscuit loaves with a saw knife into approx. 1 1/2 cm thick slices. Spread the cookie slices on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake one after the other in the oven for about 20 minutes each at the same temperature. Turn the biscuits after about 10 minutes each
Chop 100 g chocolate and melt over a warm water bath. Decorate biscuits with it
Preparation time approx. 1 hour 50 minutes. waiting time approx. 20 minutes