Linzer Meringue Cake (linzer Teszta)

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 lb butter, chilled
• 1/4 lb shortening, chilled
• 1 1/3 cups you favorite jam, i like apricot, raspberry (or lekvar*) or 1 1/3 cups plums
• 5 eggs, separated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 6 tablespoons sour cream
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup ground walnuts

Recipe

• 1 sift first three ingredients together.
• 2 cut in the butter and shortening to the flour mixture.
• 3 in a separate bowl, mix together the egg yolks, vanilla, and sour cream
• 4 add this mixture to the flour and butter mixture.
• 5 cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• 6 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 7 on a floured surface, roll the chilled dough out to fit the bottom of a 11" x 15" x 1" baking pan (you may need to trim the edges but try not to make the dough too thin).
• 8 bake for 30 minutes.
• 9 cake is baking, beat, in a very clean bowl, the egg whites until stiff peaks form on the tips of the beaters, gradually adding the sugar while beating.
• 10 remove cake from oven and immediately spread with meringue.
• 11 sprinkle with walnuts and return to oven for about 15 minutes or until meringue is lightly browned (watch this very closely so it won't burn).
• 12 serve warm, room temp, or, my favorite, chilled.
• 13 *lekvar is a european fruit jam that is thicker than american jams and has more of a texture like fruit butter.