Delicious Mazurka

Description

In Romanian: Mazurca delicioasa

Ingredients

• 14 oz / 400 g confectioner's sugar
• 14 oz / 400 g butter
• 2 cups blanched, peeled and finely chopped almonds
• 1½ cups flour
• 12 eggs
• vanilla
• butter to grease the pan

Procedures

1. Cream the butter, add the almonds and mix again.
2. Add flour, then yolks, one by one, vanilla and sugar, little by little; mix very well.
3. At the end, gradually add the whipped egg whites.
4. Fold them in gently.
5. Pour the batter into a baking pan covered with buttered paper and bake at medium heat.
6. When cold, cut into medium sized squares.