Swedish Mazarin Torte or Mazarins

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup butter
• 2/3 cup blanched almond, ground
• 2 eggs
• green food coloring

Recipe

• 1 Combine butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolk and flour and stir until smooth.
• 2 Place dough in refrigerator for one hour.
• 3 To make filling, combine butter and sugar until smooth. Add almonds, eggs and food coloring and mix until well blended.
• 4 Butter an 8 inch pie tin.
• 5 Remove dough from refrigerator and roll out to fit the pie tin and then spread the filling evenly over the crust.
• 6 Bake in a slow oven - 250F - for 30 minutes. Cool in the tin.
• 7 When cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar or spread with a simple icing (1/2 c powdered sugar and 1 tablespoons water).
• 8 OPTIONAL: you can make these into small tarts instead. Follow same steps but bake in 375F oven for 20 minutes. These are called Mazarins.