Almond Torte
"Very delicious, very quick, very easy. And very sweet. I always bring home an empty pan when I take this to parties."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
1 9inch torte
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
-
Crust
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 1 egg yolk
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Filling
- 8 ounces almond paste
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg white
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
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Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 cup slivered almonds
directions
- Crust: Mix all ingredients until crumbly and press into 9" torte pan.
- Filling: Mix all ingredients thoroughly and pour into pan.
- Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes until slightly golden; let cool 10 minutes and ice.
- Icing: Mix all ingredients except almonds and drizzle over the torte; sprinkle with almonds.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
