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Bündner Nusstorte

Name: Bündner Nusstorte
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Switzerland
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 200g Butter; 300g Walnuts; 200g Granulated sugar; 150ml Heavy Cream; 2 tbsp Honey; 1 Egg

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Caramelized walnuts baked inside a buttery crust — a traditional sweet from Graubünden in eastern Switzerland.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bündner Nusstorte is a traditional pastry from the canton of Graubünden: a rich nut cake of walnuts caramelized with cream and sugar, enclosed in a buttery crust. It keeps well, so it was once valued as provisions for crossing the mountains, and it's still the region's signature edible souvenir.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a pastry shop in St. Moritz, a heavy Nusstorte is cut into thin slices and enjoyed with coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Butter 200g
Walnuts 300g
Granulated sugar 200g
Heavy Cream 150ml
Honey 2 tbsp
Egg 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix flour, butter, egg, and salt into a pastry dough and chill.
Melt sugar in a pot to make caramel, then add cream and honey.
Stir in chopped walnuts to make the filling and let it cool.
Line a tin with pastry, pour in the filling, and cover with a second sheet of pastry.
Bake at 180°C for 40–45 minutes.

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