Re: Belated Birthday Greetings to Betsy and Maria!

Bonnie, here is the recipe, and I hope this off-topic will be allowed.
I didn't have raspberries, so I folded the contents of a can of cherry
pie filling into the whipped cream, and I was quite pleased with the
results. The meringue always falls for me, unfortunately, but it adds
the tiniest bit of delicate crunch to the cake, so I persist. I might
try adding a bit of cream of tartar to the egg whites and see if
that'll hold them up.

Blitz Torte with raspberries
Cake
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 egg yolks, beaten light
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3 tablespoons milk
1 cup Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Topping
5 egg whites
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 cup sliced blanched almonds

Filling
1 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 to 1 1/2 cups raspberries, fresh or, if frozen, thawed and drained

Cream shortening with 1/2 cup sugar and salt, then beat in egg yolks,
vanilla and milk. Stir in flour and baking powder. Spread mixture in
two round greased 8-inch or 9-inch cake pans.

Beat egg whites with 3/4 cup sugar until stiff. Spread meringue over
batter in pans. Combine cinnamon and sugar, and sprinkle over meringue.
Top with almonds.

Bake cake in a preheated 3500F oven for 30 minutes, or until cake just
begins to pull away from sides of pan. Remove from oven, cool slightly,
and remove cakes from pans to cool completely on a wire rack.

While cake cools, make filling. Using a chilled bowl and chilled
beaters, whip heavy cream until thick. Add sugar, and continue to beat
until stiff. Gently stir in raspberries.

Place one cake layer on a plate. Spread with filling. Top with the
other cake layer. Refrigerate until ready to serve.


> Ymmm...happy birthday...sounds like a happy one.  Do you have the
> recipe
> for that torte?
>
> Bonnie Zone 7/7 ETN
> Remember:  The River Raisin, The Alamo, The Maine, Pearl Harbor, 9/11
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Date: 2/26/2007 8:24:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Belated Birthday Greetings to Betsy and Maria!
>>
>> Oh the torte sounds nice Maria!  Glad you had a good one.  Betsy hope
> yours
>> was good as well!
>>
>> On 2/26/07, Maria <marolsh@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, I was alone, so I tried out a recipe for blitztorte I wanted to
>>> make for my quilting group. It turned out so well I made it again,
>>> served it to them and got raves. What could be wrong with cake,
>>> meringue, slivered almonds and whipped cream?
>>>
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>> I am glad the kids rememberedand you had an enjoyable day.. did they
>>>> bring
>>>> chocolate cake too ?
>>>>
>>>> Donna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: Maria
>>>> <marolsh@verizon.net>
>>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007
>>>> 11:25:53 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Belated Birthday Greetings to Betsy and Maria!
>>>> Thank you all for the birthday wishes. A milestone (60) passed
>>>> painlessly,
>>>> and my kids remembered. A good day.
>>>>
>>>> Maria
>>>>
>>>>> Me, too.  zem
>>>>> ----- Original
>>>> Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
>>>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>>>>>
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 6:16 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Belated Birthday
>>>> Greetings to Betsy and Maria!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope they were happy days for both of
>>>> you!
>>>>>> Kitty
>>>>>> neIN, Zone 5
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna"
>>>> <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
>>>>>> To: "gardenchat list" <gardenchat@hort.net>
>>>>>>
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 6:09 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [CHAT] Belated Birthday
>>>> Greetings to Betsy and Maria!
>>>>>>> Happy Belated Birthday Betsy and Maria!
>>>>>>>
>>>> Hope you got to enjoy the day and the
>>>>>>> birthday fairy brought you
>>>> everything you wanted!
>>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>> me bad- didn't turn
>>>>>>> on PDA for awhile
>>>> and oops... these got past me.
>>>
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>> zone 8A
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