Hungarian Cubes with Spiced Almond Batter

First prepare the shortcrust pastry

1. Quickly knead the butter, cut into small pieces, together with sugar, salt, flour and yolk to a fine shortcrust pastry – wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes (preferably longer)

various other preparations

1. First prepare the CLOVES SUGAR: Finely pestle 3 cloves together with 1 teaspoon of sugar (if you don’t have a mortar or cloves, take a small pinch of ground clove powder) – coarsely chop the whole almonds – prepare a suitable frying pan approx. 20 x 30 cm and the Record the exact dimensions of the bottom surface of this frying pan on a piece of baking paper

Prepare the almond spice batter

1. Mix the grated almonds with the coarsely chopped almonds, icing sugar, flour, egg yolk, cinnamon, clove sugar, nutmeg and the rum and then knead into a compact mass

preparation

1. 2 Place thirds of the shortcrust pastry on the prepared baking paper and roll out into a rectangle approx. 6 mm thick – now cut the shortcrust pastry to the exact dimensions of the frying pan and place in the frying pan together with the baking paper – knead the leftover dough again, roll out and refrigerate
2. Now distribute the almond spice batter evenly on the shortcrust pastry and press firmly – pour a thick layer of currant jelly over it – take the remaining shortcrust pastry out of the refrigerator, roll out about 3 mm thick and cut out small stars – distribute the stars evenly on the currant jelly
3. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees O / U heat for about 45 minutes – IMPORTANT: LET COOL DOWN VERY WtbspL before you cut the cubes about 3 x 3 cm! if you have an electric knife, you should use it to get clean interfaces