Melt the butter and let it cool down a little. Mix flour, almonds, salt and 250 g sugar. Mix the butter with the dough hooks of the hand mixer, knead everything into crumbles. Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø). Put about 2/3 of the crumbles on the bottom of the form and press it to a flat bottom. Put it in a cold place. Wash, halve and stone the apricots.
Drain the apricots from the tin. Spread the apricots on the bottom and add the remaining crumbles. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) on the lower rack for 25-35 minutes. Let it cool down on a cake rack. Remove from the tin. Decorate with mint
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