Raisin Filled Torte Recipes

Steps:

• Combine golden and dark raisins in a large bowl, cover with boiling water, and soak 15 minutes. Drain, and return raisins to bowl. Add sugar, flour, and lemon zest and juice; stir to combine, and set aside to thicken for about 10 minutes.
• On a lightly floured work surface, roll out 1 pate brisee disk to an 1/8-inch thickness. Carefully drape over a 9-inch tart pan with removable bottom. Working quickly, roll out remaining pate brisee disk to an 1/8-inch thickness. Use a ruler to measure a 9-inch circle in center, and mark lightly without cutting through dough. With a 1/2-inch round cutter, cut holes within the marked circle about 1 inch apart.
• Fill prepared tart pan with raisin mixture. Using a pastry brush, gently brush edge of dough in tart pan with water, and top with perforated dough, making sure to center it. Using kitchen shears, trim excess dough, leaving a 1/2-inch overhang. Press doughs together to seal. Using a rolling pin, roll over top of tart, flush with rim, and remove dough scraps. Refrigerate 20 minutes.
• Heat oven to 425 degrees with rack placed in lower third of oven. Whisk together egg yolk and cream in a small bowl. Brush sparingly onto tart and sprinkle with sanding sugar.
• Place tart on a rimmed baking sheet and transfer to oven. Bake 20 minutes, reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees, and bake until dark golden brown, 40 to 50 minutes more. (If tart browns too quickly, cover loosely with aluminum foil.) Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream sugars and butter. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Cover and refrigerate until easy to handle. , For filling, in a saucepan, combine the cornstarch, flour and brown sugar. Stir in water until smooth. Add raisins. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir and cook for 3 minutes or until thickened. Cool. , On a floured surface, roll out dough into 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 3-in.-round cookie cutters. Spoon 2 teaspoons filling on top of half the circles and top each with another circle. Pinch edges together and cut slit in top. , Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-13 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Beat the egg with the sugar using a fork until well blended. Stir in the melted butter, lemon juice, nutmeg, and raisins. Fill tart shells half full.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Allow tarts to stand for a few minutes in the pans before removing to racks to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F, then grease & flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
• FOR THE CAKE ~ In a large bowl, cream shortening & sugar until light & fluffy, then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In another bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder & salt, then add this to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beating well after each addition.
• Pour half of the batter into another bowl, then TO ONE BOWL add the vanilla, stirring to combine.
• Add the syrup, cinnamon, cloves & nutmeg to the second bowl, stirring to combine.
• Pour the vanilla batter into one of the prepared pans & pour the spice batter into the 2nd pan.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool both cake layers in their pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing the layers from the pans & putting on wire racks to cool.
• FOR THE FILLING ~ In a small saucepan, combine sugar & cornstarch, then gradually stir in the water until smooth.
• Add the raisins, then bring to a boil, cooking & stirring for 2 minutes or until thickened.
• Remove from the heat, then stir in lemon juice, butter & zest, before setting aside to cool.
• FOR THE ICING ~ When cake & filling have cooled, in a small bowl, whisk together the sugar, butter & zest, then add enough milk, a teaspoon or so at a time, until icing reaches desired consistency.
• Place the spice cake layer up-side-down on a serving platter & spread it with the raisin filling.
• Top that with the vanilla cake layer right-side-up before drizzling the entire cake with the icing.

Steps:

• Cook first five ingredients until thickened, then add butter, vanilla, and black walnuts.
• Use as filling between layers of cake.

Steps:

• Bring raisins and water to a boil in a 1-quart heavy saucepan, then remove from heat and let stand, covered, 1 hour. Drain in a colander, then pat dry with paper towels. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F.
• Blanch chard in a large pot of boiling salted water, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until tender but still bright green, about 5 minutes. Transfer chard with a slotted spoon to a large bowl of ice and cold water to stop cooking. Drain chard in a colander, then squeeze out excess water by handfuls. Coarsely chop chard.
• Whisk together egg, cream, granulated sugar, zest, and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Stir in pine nuts, raisins, and chard until combined.
• Roll out larger piece of dough on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin into a 15- by 11-inch rectangle and fit into tart pan (do not trim edges). Chill shell while rolling out top.
• Roll out smaller piece of dough on a lightly floured surface with lightly floured rolling pin into a 12- by 9-inch rectangle. Spread chard filling evenly into shell, then top with second rectangle of dough. Using a rolling pin, roll over edges of pan to seal tart and trim edges, discarding scraps. Cut 3 steam vents in top crust with a paring knife, then put tart in pan on a baking sheet. Bake until top is golden, about 1 hour. Transfer to a rack and cool 10 minutes, then remove side of pan. Cool to room temperature, about 1 hour. Dust with confectioners sugar.