Orange Brownies.

Orange Brownies

The orange smell evocative of the Christmas Day!

Ingredients: 

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 
• 4 eggs 
• 2 teaspoons pure orange extract 
• 1 teaspoon grated orange zest 

Glaze:

• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons orange juice 
• 1 teaspoon grated orange zest 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

  Grease a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan and set aside. In a mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, and salt. Add butter, eggs, orange extract, and orange zest and beat with a handheld electric mixer until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes, or until light golden brown and set. Remove from oven and pierce top of entire cake with a fork. 

Glaze:

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, stirring until smooth. Pour glaze over cake. Cool cake and cut into squares.

Notes: if you likes lots of glaze you should doubles the recipe))).

Vanilla torte.

Vanilla Torte

•  3 cups flour
• 1\4 cup butter
• 6 large egg yolks
• 1 cup sugar
• 1\2 cup milk
•  2 teaspoons vanilla

Filling:

• 1\2lb.unsalted butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 large egg yolks
• 12 oz strawberry or apricot jam
• Juice of 2 oranges
• Juice of 1 lemon

   Sift the flour. Add small pieces of chilled butter. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar and add to the flour. Add milk and vanilla. Knead lightly and form 4 balls of dough (for 4 layers). Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight. Roll out the dough less than 1\2 inch thick. Cut the dough into 9 circles, on to a cookie sheet. Pick with a fork a few times. Repeat with the rest of dough. Bake in preheated 350 degrees oven until golden, but not brown, about 10 minutes. Allow to cool.

   Mix butter with sugar. Add yolks and beat them for about 5 minutes. Sprinkle 1 baked layer lightly with juices. Spread jam over the top of the layer. Spread about 1\4 inch of butter cream filling on top of jam. Add second layer. Repeat process until all four layers are in place. Cover  sides with butter cream.