Linzer Tart
It’s beginning to look like Christmas. Use your leftover pulp to create our delightful Linzer tart! It’s an Austrian classic cake, made vegan, with a christmassy spiced crust and a jam filling.
RUN TIME: 25 min MINS
PREP TIME: 35 MINS
SERVINGS: 8-10

Instructions
- Step 1- Crust
- To make the crust, start by dry roasting the almonds in a small pan. Once they have cooled, add them to a blender or food processor and grind them finely.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, almonds, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, cocoa powder, gingerbread spice and salt.
- Add vegan butter in cubes and almond pulp. The butter should be at room temperature, still cool to the touch. The almond pulp needs to be very well drained.
- Knead all ingredients into a dough. If the dough seems too wet, add another tablespoon of flour or two.
- Store in the fridge for 2 hours, covered with a piece of cling wrap. You can also make the dough the day before and let it rest in the fridge overnight.
- Step 2 - Assembly
- Grease your tart pan with vegan butter and set aside.
- Divide the dough into three equal pieces. You’ll be using two thirds of the dough for the crust and the remaining for the stars on top.
- On a floured surface roll out the bigger piece of dough to a thickness of 1/6 inches (4-5 mm). Carefully transfer it to the greased tart pan. Press into bottom and up the sides. Store in the fridge while preparing the jam and the Linzer stars.
- Preheat oven to 356°F/180°C.
- Roll out the remaining dough and cut out stars in different sizes. Of course you can also use other christmassy cookie cutters.
- Pour the jam onto the prepared tart crust and spread it evenly to all edges.
- Decorate with stars (or other shapes).
- In a small bowl, mix maple or agave syrup and almond milk. Carefully coat the crust and the stars with the mixture using a pastry brush.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until the crust/stars are nicely golden. Let cool down completely.
- Step 3 - Finish
- Before serving dust with powdered sugar.
- ENJOY and store leftovers at room temperature for up to one week.
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp (175g) white spelt flour (sub with all-purpose flour or gluten-free 1 to 1 baking flour)
- ½ cup + 1 tbsp (100g) almonds
- ½ cup + 1 level tbsp (120g) raw cane sugar (sub with granulated white or brown sugar)
- ½ level tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 level tsp cacao powder
- ¼ level tsp gingerbread spice
- pinch of salt
- ¼ cup (55g) almond pulp, well drained (from almond milk made in your Almond Cow)
- ½ cup + 1 tbsp (125g) vegan butter
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