Wash the apricots, cut them crosswise, place them in boiling water and let them steep for 1-2 minutes. Rinse cold and peel skin. Halve and stone the apricots. Roughly chop the chocolate. Melt butter and chocolate in a pot at low heat while stirring, remove from the heat and pour into a mixing bowl. Add sugar, vanillin sugar, salt, eggs, flour and baking powder. Mix to a smooth dough with the whisks of the hand mixer. Place paper baking cups in the hollows of a muffin tray (12 hollows). Pour in the dough, place 1 apricot half on each and press down lightly. Mix jam and 1 tablespoon of water and bring to the boil briefly. Spread the apricots with it. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 20 minutes. Cover with aluminium foil at the end. Take the muffins out of the oven and let them cool down on a cake rack
Picture 02: Dust with icing sugar before serving
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