March 13th, 2006
Apple walnut biscuit cake (‘Elma Ll pasta’)
This is a very lightly flavored dessert. Can be eaten anytime! Hacer showed me how to make this one. It has a crisp base and the apple walnut mix is very juicy. There are three layers, the cookie type base, then the apple walnut mix and then again the cookie type base in a checked fashion. Its called ‘Elma Ll pasta’ in turkish.
Ingredients:
For the apple walnut mix:
6 apples grated,
1 cup sugar,
1 cup walnuts crushed
For the base:
3 eggs,
2 sticks butter,
1 cup powdered sugar,
about 3 1/2 cup flour,
1 tsp heaped baking powder
Cook the grated apples and the sugar in a pan, till the water evaporates. Then add the walnuts and mix and keep aside.
To make the dough, mix all the ingredients listed, adding the flour gradually till the dough is soft. Divide in two parts, one half a little more than the other. With the smaller part, make strips by rolling out the dough. Keep aside.
Grease the baking pan (9X13 inch) and then flatten the bigger half of the dough gently with your hand. Then spread the apple mix on top of this base. Now gently lay the strips first horizontally then vertically to form a criss cross / checked pattern. Bake at 350 deg F, till its golden red in color. After it is cooled, dust some powdered sugar on it. Refrigerate, cut in little pieces and serve with tea/coffee.