Rab Torte (rapska Torta)

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 50 g butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 500 g flour
• 5 g salt
• 1000 g almonds (ground)
• 900 g sugar
• 30 g sugar (3 vanilla sugar sachets)
• 15 g lemon zest (or from 2 lemons)
• 25 g orange zest (or from 2 oranges)
• 7 eggs (or 6-8 eggs)
• 50 ml maraschino cherries
• 30 g icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 blanch and peel the almonds, dry for several days at room temperature.
• 2 grind the almonds by hand; add sugar, vanilla sugar, orange and lemon zest, eggs and maraschino. each time an ingredient is added, gently mix with the fingertips. do this 5-6 times.
• 3 made a soft pastry of the butter, sugar, eggs and salt, and add flour as needed.
• 4 roll the pastry out into the required shape and place it on a greased baking tin. put the filling onto the pastry. from the remnants, cut out strips 1 cm wide and line the sides of the filling, making little waves. then, with a fork impress little tracks along the surface of the filling.
• 5 bake in preheated oven at 170°c for about 25 minutes, until the stuffing obtains a gold color.
• 6 decorate with icing sugar, serve with tea, liqueur or muscat grappa.