Thanks Mrs Fulton

Margaret Fulton, now there is a woman with vision. She who played a significant part in introducing 'exotic' (aka anything other than meat and three veg) to hundreds of Australian housewives..... anyway, thanks.. and thanks for this linzertorte recipe. It's fab!! Seems like the perfect afternnon tea cake- i don't do the afternoon tea thing myself, but as an evening treat seemed to work beautifully! Giovanni (aka dad, papa, nonno) was official reviewer on this on, and he does not give his marks away to freely, so when he says it's a 5/5 you know you are on a winner! Enjoy Angexx

Linzertorte

100g butter

1 cup caster sugar

zest 1 lemon or 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

2 eggs

1 1/4cups plain flour

1 tsp cinnamon

pinch salt

1 1/4 cup almond meal
Great quality raspberry jam about 1 cup

preheat oven 160C, grease 23cm springform tin.

cream butter and sugar. Add zest or vanilla (i did bit of both), add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition. Fold in sifted flour, cinnamon, salt and almond meal till well mixed.

Reserve a third of this mix, spread two thirds onto cake pan. Spread jam on top of mix, leave a 2cm border. pipe the reserved mix around outside edge of cake, also pipe criss cross pattern on top. Bake for 40mins. When cooled a little, sprinkle with some icing sugar. Enjoy either warm or room temp.

Lvl Difficulty- can watch tv at same time

Time - syd to melb flight

Overall - High 5s all round!!