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Linzer Torte

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Servings: 12
Categories: Desserts / Tortes

Ingredients:
    -----LINZER DOUGH-----
1 1/2  cups  All-purpose flour
1  cup  Ground, blanched almonds
3/4  cup  Sugar
1/4  teaspoon  Ground cloves
1  teaspoon  Baking powder
3/4  cup  Butter
1  teaspoon  Grated lemon zest
1  teaspoon  Vanilla extract
1    Egg
1    Egg yolk
    -----FILLING-----
1/3  cup  Raspberry preserves
2    Baskets fresh raspberries
1/3  cup  Toasted, sliced almonds
    Confectioners' sugar
    -----VARIATION-----
    -----CHEESE LINZER TORTE-----
    -----CHEESE FILLING-----
1  pound  Cream cheese, room temperature
1/4  cup  Sugar
1  teaspoon  Vanilla extract
1  teaspoon  Grated lemon zest
2    Eggs
2    Egg yolks
1/2  cup  Cream

Directions:
FOR THE LINZER DOUGH: Preheat oven to 350F with rack in center. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Rub in butter finely by hand. Whisk lemon zest and vanilla with egg and yolk and stir into dough with a fork--the dough will be very soft. Butter a 12-inch tart pan with removable bottom. Spread dough evenly in the pan, spreading it thicker at the edge to form the side wall of the tart shell. For raspberry version, bake about 25 minutes, until well risen and firm. Cool in pan on a rack. RASPBERRY FILLING: Spread the preserves in the tart shell and arrange the raspberries on the preserves. Edge with the almonds and dust lightly with the confectioners' sugar. CHEESE VARIATION: Do not bake shell. Beat cream cheese with a hand mixer set at medium speed or with a heavy-duty mixer fitted with the paddle. Beat in sugar and continue beating until smooth, adding remaining ingredients in order, scraping bowl and beater(s) often. Pour into unbaked Linzer shell, above. Bake about 30 minutes. Cool and finish with jam and raspberries, if desired, or leave plain. NICK MALGIERI - PRODIGY GUEST CHEFS COOKBOOK


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