Linzer Torte
Cake made with short crumbly pastry and apricot jam
Equipment
- springform pan or tart pan
Ingredients
- 140 grams sugar 3/4 cups
- 140 grams flour 1 cup
- 140 grams ground almonds 1 3/4 cup
- 140 grams butter, room temperature 10 tablespoons
- zest of one lemon
- zest of one orange
- 3 rgg yolks
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- pinch of nutmeg
- pinch of salt
- apricot jam
- 1 egg for egg-wash
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.Mix butter with sugar until light and fluffy, add egg yolks and mix well and then add the mixed dried ingredients. Mix until all is well incorporated.Grease an 8 inch springform pan and for extra safety I cut out a round piece of greased cookie sheet and put on the bottom. Reserve a small piece of the dough for the lattice, about a fifth of it. Shape the rest of your dough into a disk and put it into the pan, shape with fingers so there is about a 1/4 inch rim around, not too high. Spread your marmalade on top, except for on the rim, making sure you don’t put too much or it will ooze over the lattice and it will not look pretty. Now split your reserved dough into two equal pieces. Count on making 5 to 7 1/4 inch thick round strips for your lattice in each direction. There will obviously be the longest middle one so reserve more dough for that one, then two shorter ones and so on…for the end ones you will need very little dough, but you will see that as you go…I usually make my strips first and put them on the side of the pan trying to gestimate where they will go to make sure they are pretty even and I have enough dough before I actually put them on top of the marmalade. When I do the opposite direction of the lattice, I do everything the same, but when I am laying them down, I use my fingers to seal them a little bit where they are overlapping the bottom layer.This is a crumbly dough and I find it way to difficult to try to overlap the dough like in a real lattice, one over and under the other. Before it goes into the oven, brush it with beaten egg. Bake for 20 minutes until nicely browned. Try not to over-bake it, I did it a couple of times and it goes from glorious to inedible in just a few minutes, keep an eye on it!Merry Christmas! Sretan Božić!