Marillenknödel are a pastry

Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."...

. They are found in the traditional Bohemian

Bohemia

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 and Viennese

Vienna

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 cuisines. "Marillen" is the Austrian term for apricots and this pastry is found predominantly in areas where apricot

Apricot

The apricot, Prunus armeniaca, is a species of Prunus, classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus. The native range is somewhat uncertain due to its extensive prehistoric cultivation.- Description :...

 orchards are common. Examples of such areas would include the Wachau

Wachau

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 and Vinschgau.

Small dumplings are formed from dough, in which apricots are placed. The dumplings are then boiled and covered in streusel

Streusel

In baking and pastry making, streusel is a crumb topping of butter, flour, and white sugar that is baked on top of muffins, breads, and cakes .Some modern recipes add various spices and occasionally chopped nutmeats...

 and powdered sugar. The dough is usually made of potato but is also made from "Topfenteig

Quark (cheese)

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At the Kurt Tichy ice cream parlors in Vienna one can also find the so-called "Eismarillenknödel", in which the "dough

Dough

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" is made of ice cream

Ice cream

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 and the streusel is made of a nut and sugar mixture

Mixture

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