Napoleon tort

By bigbare

Ingredients

• Dough:
• 1/2 pound unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• two in three-quarter cups sifted flour
• three large egg yolks cooked and mashed through sieve.
• Filling:
• 12 ounces of apricot jam
• 12 ounce can of condensed sweetened milk
• 1/2 pound unsalted butter
• icing:
• when 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• juice of one lemon
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind.

Preparation

Step 1

To make dough: cut butter into flour
and add rest of ingredients. Chill.
Divide into five parts.
Butter and line five 8 inch pan with parchment paper.
Spread dough onto circles and bake for 8 to 10 minutes at 400°. Chill.
To make filling: cup milk in double boiler until thick and gold cool then beat butter until fluffy gradually add milk to make a light and fluffy buttercream.
To make icing: boil sugar water and vinegar to 242° and add remaining ingredients and beat well.
Assembly: place one pastry round with jam then buttercream filling and repeat until all rounds are used ending with the pastry round.
Cover with icing and chill.