Chocolate Pastry Raspberry Jam Tart from St. Gallen

St. Gallen Klostertorte

Preparation info
  • One 10 inch tart, about

    8 to 10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

St. Gallen is a lovely small city in eastern Switzerland, well known for its great architectural monument, the Benedictine monastery of Saint Gall. An enterprising baker must have invented this specialty in honor of the monastery. Klostertorte is like a chocolate version of a linzertorte, with a cocoa-and-nut dough that encloses a filling of raspberry jam. You’ll have some scraps of dough left over after you prepare the Klostertorte. Roll them to a square a