How to Freeze Apricots

Marie Overton
Apr 15
1 min read

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Frozen apricots are good for a various uses including baking, making smoothies, and eating as a frozen treat. Freezing apricots makes it so easy to have them all year.

How to Prepare apricots for Freezing

A colander of bright orange apricots being rinsed under a stream of water in a kitchen sink. Water droplets glisten on the fruit.

The first step in freezing apricots is to wash, cut them in half and pit them.

Person in apron cutting apricots on a wooden board in a kitchen; countertop and baking tray in the background. Apron text: "Marie".

Now that the apricots are ready, let’s individually freeze them. This allows the apricots to be removed from the freezer individually instead of in one large ice block.

How to Freeze apricots

Hands arrange halved apricots on a baking tray in a kitchen with a hexagonal tile backsplash. An apron reads “Mari.”

Freezing apricots is done by placing the apricots in a single layer on a baking sheet with a silicone mat.

A person sprays apricot halves on a baking sheet with liquid in a kitchen. They wear an apron, with a patterned backsplash in the background.

Next, they are sprayed with lemon juice to keep them from browning.

Person in a kitchen sprinkles sugar from a wooden bowl onto apricot halves on a baking sheet. Gray countertop, tiled backsplash visible.

Then, they are sprinkled with sugar which draws the juice to the surface, blocking any air from being trapped inside and reducing the chance of freezer burn.

Place the tray into the freezer to freeze for 4-6 hours.

Hands sealing a plastic bag of apricots on a granite countertop next to a baking sheet. Bag labeled "Apricots 7-2" in pink. Kitchen setting.

After the apricots have been frozen individually, remove them from the baking sheet and place them in long-term storage freezer bags that have been labeled with the contents and date.