Linzer Schnitten (linzer Cake)

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 200 g coarse flour
• 200 g cold butter
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g ground hazelnuts
• 40 g breadcrumbs
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 60 g redcurrant jam
• 1 tablespoon rum
• 1 tablespoon powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 crust: knead butter, sugar, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, cinnamon and hazelnuts to a soft dough, form to a ball and let cool in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
• 2 mix jam with rum.
• 3 butter a cake pan and split dough in halves.
• 4 use rolling pin to flatten dough.
• 5 cover cake pan with one half of dough and coat with jam-rum mixture.
• 6 cut other half of dough in half inch wide stripes and arrange "lattice-like" on the jam rum mixture.
• 7 bake at 175°c until golden brown (45minutes).
• 8 sprinkle with powdered sugar.