Linzer torte
Linzer torte recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 lemon, grated rind and juice
- 1 tablespoon brandy
- 1/2 pound almonds, chopped fine
- 2 cups flour, sifted 3 times
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1, 12 ounces, jar jam or preserves
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugar well.
- Add yolks, flavoring and almonds.
- Add flour mixed with baking powder and fold in the stiffly beaten whites.
- Roll out or pat two thirds of the dough in a greased and floured 9 inch springform pan having the dough a little thicker on the bottom than the sides.
- Fill with jam.
- Roll remaining dough.
- Cut in strips and place crisscross on top.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Before serving, fill hollows on top with jam.
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