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ingredients

  • ½ cup sugar
  • ¼ lb. butter
  • 1 cup almond paste
  • 2 ½ tbsp flour
  • 3 whole eggs
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 ½ tsp kirschwasser
  • confectioner's sugar
  • Serve with

directions

1. Cream butter and sugar for 3 or 4 minutes with hand beater or about 1 minute with electric beater (at cream-butter speed). Add almond paste and beat with electric hand beater. Add eggs one at a time, continuing to beat at same speed for 2 minutes, or 15 minutes with hand beater. Add flour, salt and kirsch. Beat for 3 minutes at blending speed or 5 minutes by hand. Place in a buttered 8 inch-pie pan, the bottom of which has been lined with waxed paper. Bake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes. Turn out on cake rack and cool; place in refrigerator for a couple of hours.
2. Serving: Place on serving dish and sprinkle generously with confectioner's sugar. Top individual slices with raspberry sauce.

Categories

Roundeye

source

Maria Luisa Taglienti

servings/yield

6 servings

rating

difficulty

cuisine

European : Mediterranean : Italian

course

Dessert

preparation times

• Start to finish: 1 Hour 15 Minutes