Linzer Schnitten (Linzer Cake)

Submitted by Eismeer

"A traditional Austrian, absolutely delicious and so easy to make cake. Classic :)!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 12 slices
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• 200 g coarse flour
• 200 g cold butter
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g ground hazelnuts
• 40 g breadcrumbs
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 60 g redcurrant jam
• 1 tablespoon rum
• 1 tablespoon powdered sugar

directions

1. Crust: Knead butter, sugar, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, cinnamon and hazelnuts to a soft dough, form to a ball and let cool in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
2. Mix jam with rum.
3. Butter a cake pan and split dough in halves.
4. Use rolling pin to flatten dough.
5. Cover cake pan with one half of dough and coat with jam-rum mixture.
6. Cut other half of dough in half inch wide stripes and arrange "lattice-like" on the jam rum mixture.
7. Bake at 175°C until golden brown (45minutes).
8. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Reviews

[berry271]

Yum! I've made Linzer Hearts before, but never a Torte. Looks very impressive, and reminds me of something that would have been served with Kaffee when I lived in Deutschland. It is a bit more involved than other dessert recipes might be, but not as complicated as I thought. An interesting crust, but it turned out very well. I did bake it in a tart pan and not a cake pan. That made it very easy to serve. I also had a little leftover dough that I used to make a little Nutella "Pop Tart" which was also very good.