• Whisk together the butter, sugar, and salt using a hand or stand mixer until creamy. Carefully mix in the egg and quark/ or cream cheese - Greek yogurt mixture.
  ⅛ cups butter, 2 tablespoon granulated sugar , 1 pinch salt , 1 egg, 1 cups quark
• Add the flour to the bowl and combine it into a homogenous dough. The dough will be sticky but do not worry. If you add too much flour to the dough, it will become hard, we are aiming for a soft dough.
  1 cups flour
• Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and place it in the fridge to rest for around 30 minutes.

Preparing the apricots

• Wash the apricots.  Make a lengthwise incision on one side and remove the stone from the inside. Fill the core of the apricot teaspoon with a teaspoon of sugar. Set aside.
  8 apricots
• Once the dough is finished resting in the fridge we can start making the dumplings. Because the dough is sticky, it is best to work with wet hands. Keep a bowl of water by your side, so you can wet your hands again, should they become dry. Take an apricot, wrap dough around it, and form it into a ball. Ensure that you close the seams of the dough well, as otherwise, they might open in the water. Repeat until all the dough is used up. (The apricots will all be different sizes, and it will be impossible to get evenly shaped dumplings, so please do not worry if they are different or not perfectly round.) Leave your raw dumplings to rest on a plate for a further 30 minutes at room temperature.
• In the meantime, heat water with ½ teaspoon of salt in a large pot. There should be enough water in the pot to coat the dumplings. Once the water is boiling, reduce the heat, as the dumplings are supposed to only simmer not wildly boil.
• Place the dumplings into the water and leave to simmer for about 10 minutes. You might have to do this in batches depending on the size of your pot.
• In a separate frying pan melt the butter. Then add the sugar and breadcrumbs and fry until golden brown. Remove from the heat.
  1 cups breadcrumbs , 2 tablespoon butter
• Once the dumplings are cooked, remove them with a slotted spoon. Add them to the pan with the breadcrumbs and roll them around until coated.
• Serve warm with vanilla sauce