In the 1980's I used to frequently eat lunch in a restaurant called The Money Tree. Ed Janos was the executive chef and Helen Baumgartner was the pastry chef. One of her delightful desserts was called Bundernuss Torte. Over the years, I have tried to find a recipe. What I learned is that Bundernuss is a tart - not a torte. So this was her interpretation of it in a torte. Bundernuss is a nut crust, filled with almond paste, topped with more nuts & caramel.
When SousChef's sister moved, she gave me a big box of old cookbooks. In it was a copy of the Ford Times Recipe Book. And wouldn't you know it, they had Helen Baumgartner's recipe from The money Tree! I just had to try.
The difference is that instead of almond paste, she baked an almond paste pound cake in that walnut crust. We had this for breakfast this morning.
