{"id":1703,"date":"2010-04-26T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:24:30","slug":"weekend-fun-a-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fun! + a recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday was Meredith and Aidan’s birthday!  <\/p>\n

And we celebrated with a train ride and lunch at the Winking Lizard in Peninsula!<\/p>\n

Allyson’s Aiden has a birthday in May- so we enjoyed the train experience with both boys for their birthdays!  <\/p>\n

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They had such a good time- both on the train and playing on the tracks-<\/p>\n

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and climbing on the rocks and checking out the view of the river.\"train<\/a> \"train<\/a> \"train<\/a> <\/p>\n

Then, after a ride back to Akron, and a car ride home to Copley, we had cake!<\/p>\n

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Belgian Apricot Torte.<\/p>\n

It is kind of crumbly- but so great with tea and low in sugar that we loved it!<\/p>\n

Here’s the recipe:<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup soft butter<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup superfine sugar<\/p>\n

1 1\/2 TBSP oil<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp vanilla<\/p>\n

1 egg, beaten<\/p>\n

3 cups flour ( all purpose or pastry- I used pastry)<\/p>\n

1 1\/2tsp baking powder<\/p>\n

grated rind of lemon<\/p>\n

grated rind of orange<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup finely chopped dried apricots<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup apricot jam<\/p>\n

confectioner’s sugar for dredging<\/p>\n

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Line a 8 inch pan with baking parchment.<\/p>\n

Beat the butter, sugar, oil  and vanilla until fluffy, then add egg and beat well.<\/p>\n

Sift the flour with the baking powder, and gradually work into the creamed mixture along with the grated rinds.<\/p>\n

Knead together as for a shortbread dough.  Divide in half, and coarsely grate one portion into the pan so that it covers the bottom evenly.<\/p>\n

Beat the jam and apricots together and spread the mixture evenly over the dough- taking it right to the edges.<\/p>\n

Grate the remaining dough evenly over the apricot layer and  bake in a preheated oven at 300 degrees F for about 1- 1 1\/4 hours, or until lightly browned and just firm.  Remove from the oven and set aside until cold<\/p>\n

Remove the torte from the pan and strip off the paper.  <\/p>\n

Dredge heavily with sifted confectioner’s sugar.<\/p>\n

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I was going to take a picture of the whole round- but we ate it before I could get my camera out.  This is so easy to make- easy for kids to eat and just delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday was Meredith and Aidan’s birthday!  And we celebrated with a train ride and lunch at the Winking Lizard in Peninsula! Allyson’s Aiden has a birthday in May- so we enjoyed the train experience with both boys for their birthdays!  … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-recipes","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}