Neighbours Invited

After almost 6 years living here, we never invited our neighbours... what a shame! They invited us once (some years ago already) for dessert after dinner, so I thought I'd do the same. The days before I madly cleaned the whole living room and kitchen and baked something really Austrian. Something they already know from Italy, but the Austrian version. And a soft dessert, as Italians prefer this to proper cakes.

This Gitterkuchen is similar to Linzer Torte. Italians know it with a slightly different taste (and heavier) as "Crostata".

Gitterkuchen

This is the Austrian's housewives pride: Kardinalschnitten, which means "Cardinal's slices". It's really a soft, melting cloud in your mouth!

Meringue and sponge cake stripes are baked together to form the two parts of the dessert, which are filled with coffee cream and jam. Preferably raspberry, but I used cherry.