Almond Schnitten

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Ingredients

  • 1 stick plus 2½ tbsp 150 g Butter
  • 7 Egg yolks
  • cup 150 g Confectioner’s sugar for the yolk mixture
  • Salt
  • 1 cup plus 3 tbsp 150 g Flour
  • Pinch of Baking powder
  • 7 Egg whites
  • cup 150 g Confectioner’s sugar for the egg whites
  • 3.5 oz 100 g Almonds, ground
  • 3.5 oz 100 g Chocolate, ground
  • 1 tbsp Rum
  • Butter for the baking sheet
  • About 1¼ cup 150 g apricot marmalade
  • Some couverture to decorate

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 340 °F (170 °C).
  • Cream the butter with egg yolks, a dash of salt, and sugar.
  • Fold in flour and baking powder.
  • Spread on a buttered baking sheet and brush with marmalade.
  • Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks with confectioner’s sugar and fold in the ground almonds and chocolate.
  • Flavor with rum.
  • Spread the egg whites evenly on top of the dough.
  • Bake for about 35 minutes.
  • Cut into little squares.
  • Melt chocolate, fill a parchment paper cone, and pipe thin lines across the schnitten.
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Course Dessert
Cuisine Austria / European