Finely dice 100 g apricots. Knead flour, sugar, baking powder, vanillin sugar, gingerbread spice, quark, milk and oil with the dough hooks of the hand mixer to a smooth dough. Knead almonds, diced apricots, 100 g cranberries and lemon peel into the dough. Grease depressions of a muffin tin (12 depressions). Spread the dough into the hollows.
Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 25-30 minutes. Melt butter. Remove muffins from the oven. Immediately brush with half of the butter and dust with 50 g icing sugar. Spread the rest of the butter again, dust with 50 g icing sugar and allow to cool. Cut 6 apricots horizontally and cut out stars. Chop 25 g cranberries. Remove the muffins from the tin and dust them again with 50 g icing sugar. Decorate with apricot stars and cranberries.
Spread the rest of the butter again, dust with 50 g icing sugar and allow to cool. Cut 6 apricots horizontally and cut out stars. Chop 25 g cranberries. Remove the muffins from the tin and dust them again with 50 g icing sugar. Decorate with apricot stars and cranberries. Place the muffins in Christmas paper cuffs
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