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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Scandinavian >> Swedish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 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. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup	unsalted	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
sugar	1/4	cup	powdered	116.7	29.930999999999997	0.0	0.0
egg yolk	1			54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
flour	1	cup		578.28	126.6054	9.401	2.2436
sugar	1/2	cup		402.99	100.79799999999999	0.0	0.0
butter	1/3	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
almond	2/3	cup	blanched ground	1284.7467	0.0	0.0	145.3333
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
green food coloring				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.