Spanish Pastries

This almond roll is incredibly sweet and addicting!

Country: Germany

Century: 16th

Paste Royale/Short Paste

4 oz. ground almonds

1/4 cup sugar

4 Tbsp. butter, softened

Roll out crust into a long rectangle, as thin as you can. Rub butter over top of the entire pastry. Sprinkle almonds and sugar over the entire thing. Roll up length-wise as tight as you can. Cover with tin foil as much as you can (almost wrapped) and place into a heavily greased baking pan. Bake in the oven at 350°F for approximately an hour, or until outer crust stiffens and turns light-golden brown.

Original Recipe Sources

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Source [an error occurred while processing this directive] First prepare a firm dough with eggs and fat and roll it out very thin, as long as the table, and sprinkle ground almonds and sugar, butter or fat over it and roll it up over itself like a sausage. Afterwards cut it in pieces and close up both ends. In this manner make one after the other and turn the underside to the top. And bake it in a smooth pan, with fat in the pan. And let it bake in a weak heat, with a hot cover over the top, and serve it cold.