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Linzertorte (Austrian Jam & Nut Tart) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Linzertorte (Austrian Jam & Nut Tart) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Published by the Austrian Tourist Board, the recipe consists of hazelnut and spice flavored shortcrust pastry in two layers, one as a bottom, and the other as a decorative top layer. With redcurrant jam in the middle and the optional wafers, the torte is finished off with a coating of a beaten egg and almonds flakes sprinkled over the top. Great recipe for Linzertorte (Austrian Jam & Nut Tart).

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook linzertorte (austrian jam & nut tart) using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Linzertorte (Austrian Jam & Nut Tart):

1. Take 20 cm (8 in) springform or cake pan
2. Make ready Nutty Pastry Dough:
3. Prepare 125 g Flour
4. Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
5. Take 1 pinch salt
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
7. Take pinch ground cloves
8. Get 1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
9. Get 60 g ground almonds
10. Take 1 tsp lemon zest
11. Make ready 1 egg
12. Prepare 75 g sugar
13. Take 100 g unsalted butter, cold
14. Prepare Filling:
15. Take 250-300 g raspberry, red current or plum jam (pflaumenmus)
16. Take 1 Tbsp rum or other liquor
17. Prepare Milk for brushing on dough

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get red currant jam so I substituted for raspberry. I used a recipe from the Austrian Tourism website as a base for the torte Linzer Torte. With my surplus of raspberry jam I decided to make one of my fall favorites, the linzer torte. This is an Austrian dessert named after the city of Linz.

Instructions to make Linzertorte (Austrian Jam & Nut Tart):

1. Mix the flour, ground almonds, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cocoa powder and lemon zest. Pile onto a large working surface and form a well in the middle.
2. Add put chunks of cold butter around the well. Then add the sugar and egg into the well.
3. Using your fingers, start working the egg, sugar and butter into the flour around the well.
4. As the flour gets incorporated and a buttery dough starts to form, pull in more flour into the dough from around the sides.
5. When all the flour is worked in, squeeze the dough tightly together into a ball. Cover with wrap and chill in the fridge for about 1 hour.
6. Grease the cake/springform pan with butter and sprinkle with flour.
7. After chilling, roll out 2/3 dough into a rough round shape for the pan. Press it into the bottom of the pan. Poke the bottom of the crust several times with a fork.
8. Roll out a little of the remaining dough for the sides of the crust and press it around the sides of the pan to form an even border.
9. Mix the jam with rum and spread in the crust.
10. Roll out the rest of the dough into a sheet and cut into strips for the crisscross pattern across the top. It's also fun to try shapes like circles and stars :) After you lay out the top, brush some milk over the crust.
11. Preheat oven to 180C/350C. Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until the pastry dough is golden brown and the center is bubbling. (I recommend checking after 20 minutes since ovens can be quite different!). Let cool and then remove from the pan.
12. The cake gets better as it ages, so it will actually taste better if you cover it in aluminum foil and let it set for a couple days! When you're ready to eat, slice and enjoy!

As a torte, it is a sort of cake made with ground nuts and little to no flour. In Austria there is even the saying, "was sind aller Dichter Worte gegen eine Linzer Torte!" ("What are all poets' words in comparison to the Linzer Torte!"). This torte which may, on first glance, appear like a simple cake made out of shortcrust pastry filled with jam does, in fact, show real culinary potential. Austria has a long history and tradition of making some of the finest desserts in the world. The Linzer Torte is a holiday classic in the Austrian, Hungarian, Swiss, German, and Tirolean traditions.

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