Apple Tosca Pie Recipe: Juicy apple filling under a layer of golden almond caramel

Tosca cake is a classic Nordic dessert. Invented in Sweden in the early 20th century in a period when the opera Tosca was so famous that people were naming everything after it, Tosca cake is a buttery sponge cake topped with an almond caramel candied topping similar to nut brittle (but not as... brittle). It is widespread in prepackaged form, cafés and buffets, and a common homemade staple that can be easily purchased as a mix. (You can read about the classic Tosca cake here, if you want - I found an article and recipe in English with a video - but you can easily find recipes and pictures in English with a simple search.) Classic Tosca cake is also a great dessert which I also love, as are Tosca buns (cinnamon rolls topped with almond caramel), but you can read about them anywhere.

But this recipe for Apple Tosca Pie that we ripped out of the Sokos grocery coop's magazine Yhteishyvä last year is actually unique. A chef probably developed it for them, though it wasn't credited by name. We made it a couple of times last year, lost the recipe, and then recently when our apple trees started groaning beneath the weight of their apples we thought of it again and managed to find it online [Finnish]. Today we filled a little bucket with windfall apples and Wax made it this afternoon while I was running around doing dishes and laundry and changing bunny litter, and it's just as delicious as we remembered, maybe more so.

Therefore, for the benefit of others and also so we won't lose the recipe again, I have translated it and now offer in both metric and US measures:



( Apple Tosca Pie )

Eggcorns, homophones, thesauritis, and funky back formations...

1. He had to contentiously stop his mind from going down these roads.


2. "Oh contraire,"


3. terns his car off


4. a full proof way to cool off


5. a small chuckle at his earnesty


6. underneath the hospital gown that Eddie now dawns.

... and also, is there a concise term for "slightly misusing a word due to misunderstanding its precise meaning"?