Cracow Pastry Layer Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 10 ounces butter
• 10 ounces flour
• 5 ounces almonds, ground
• 4 egg yolks, hard boiled
• 5 ounces caster sugar
• 1/2 vanilla bean, ground to powder
• 4 egg whites, beaten stiff
• 4 ounces caster sugar
• 8 ounces apricot jam, sieved
• 5 ounces caster sugar
• 5 ounces apricot jam
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 15 almond halves

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar add eggs.
• 2 add vanilla bean
• 3 add flour and ground almonds
• 4 quickly knead pastry dough
• 5 divide dough in 5 parts
• 6 roll out
• 7 bake 4 or 5 thin round layers in a baking pan in turns
• 8 the layers should not be browned to much
• 9 but should be slightly golden
• 10 im guessin 375 for 10 minutes
• 11 filling
• 12 add sugar to egg whites cream until fluffy.
• 13 add sieved jam fold in
• 14 icing beat together everything but almonds
• 15 spread filling thinly betweeen layers
• 16 cover with icing
• 17 decorate with rosettes made from almond halves
• 18 best made 4 days in advance , so it matures and becomes crubly as hapiness.