646. Torta di Mandorle e Cioccolata

Chocolate Almond Cake

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

For chocolate lovers, this is a delicious cake.

Ingredients

  • 150 grams (about 5-¼ ounces) of almonds
  • 150 grams (about 5-¼

Method

Blanch the almonds, dry well in the sun or over the fire, and then crush them very finely in a mortar with a third of the sugar. Put on the fire and mix the butter, the potato flour, and the milk added a little at a time. When this mixture has acquired the right consistency, add the chocolate (grated), the remaining sugar and, when these two ingredients have been absorbed, the crushed almonds,