Earth Apple Torte
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1 (10 ounce) large baking potatoes, baked or 1 cup mashed potatoes
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar, divided
- 1 1⁄2 cups pecans, finely ground
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 4 large eggs
- 1⁄3 cup seedless raspberry preserves
- 1⁄2 pint fresh raspberry (optional)
- mint sprig (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Butter and flour an 8 1/2" springform pan or a 9" round cake pan.
- Peel baked potato while still hot (protect your hands with oven mitts) and put in a food processor.
- Add 1 cup sugar, pecans, cinnamon, and cloves; process 30 seconds or until uniform in color.
- Place mixture in a bowl.
- Separate 3 eggs.
- Reserve the whites and add the 3 yolks plus the one whole egg to potato mixture; beat until smooth.
- Place whites in a separate bowl.
- With an electric mixer on high, beat until soft peaks form.
- Gradually add in the rest of the sugar, beating until glossy peaks form (or about 4 minutes).
- Don't overbeat.
- Fold 1/3 of the egg whites into potato mixture until lightened.
- Fold in the rest of the whites until no white streaks remain.
- Pour batter into pan and place on baking sheet.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack.
- Spread preserves on top and garnish with raspberries and mint.
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Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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