Linzertorte
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 45 mins
Ingredients
  • 200 g sugar
  • 250 g ground almonds (I roast mine before)
  • 200 g flour
  • 2 teaspoons cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 egg
  • 20-25 ml cherry schnaps
  • 250 g unsalted butter, cut in small pieces
  • 300 g Raspberry marmalade (a good one, like 'Bonne Maman')
  • 1 egg yolk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter a 26 cm diameter baking pan. (10 inch)
  2. Mix sugar, almonds, flour, cocoa, cinnamon, both sugars,and cloves very well. Add dry ingredients in a bowl of a kitchen machine with a dough hook, mix dry ingredients with schnaps, egg and butter until a smooth pastry forms. Wrap pastry in plastic foil and let it rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
  3. Press ⅔ of the pastry into the bottom of the baking pan, forming a little rim of 2 cm on the sides. Spread the marmalade over the pastry. Roll out the rest of the pastry and cut it into strips for the decoration. Lay the strips on top of the marmalade, forming a grid.
  4. Baste the grid and rim with the egg yolk.
  5. Bake for 30-40 min.
Recipe by My Kitchen in the Rockies | A Denver, Colorado Food Blog at http://www.mykitchenintherockies.com/2012/02/18/linzertorte/