Figaro

Description

In Romanian: Figaro

Ingredients

• 5 oz/150 g butter
• 3 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
• 4 eggs
• 8 oz/250 g flour
• peel and juice from 1/2 lemon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 5 oz/150 g Sugar
• 5 oz/150 g ground walnuts
• 10 oz/300 g marmalade or preserves without syrup

Directions

1. Mix the butter with 3 tablespoons confectioner's sugar, add the yolks one by one.
2. Mix well. Add juice and grated lemon peel, baking soda and vanilla and knead with the flour.
3. Roll into a finger thick sheet and place in a pan.
4. Bake at low heat until the sheet starts to rise and gets a crust.
5. Then remove from the oven and quickly spread a layer of marmelade or preserves, topping with the whipped egg whites which have been mixed with 5 oz/150 g Sugar and ground walnuts.
6. Put in the oven again and bake.
7. When done, let it cool in the pan.
8. Then cut into squares or rectangles.