Torta Caprese (Capri Cake)
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Preheat the oven to 160° Beat the sugar and butter until pale and creamy, add 1 egg yolk at time, mixing well after each addition. Add the melted butter, ground almonds and hazelnuts, the liqueur and the melted chocolate. Mix well. Beat stiff the egg whites with a pinch of salt and add to the mixture, folding gently. Line a cake tin with wet greaseproof paper, pour the cake mixture in it and cook for 40 minutes. When cooked cool on a cake rack and dust with icing sugar
Preheat the oven to 160° Beat the sugar and butter until pale and creamy, add 1 egg yolk at time, mixing well after each addition. Add the melted butter, almond meal and hazelnuts, the liqueur and the melted chocolate. Mix well. Beat stiff the egg whites with a pinch of salt and add to the mixture, folding gently. Line a cake tin with wet greaseproof paper, pour the cake mixture in it and cook for 40 minutes. When cooked cool on a cake rack and dust with icing sugar
Introduction
This is a chocolate and almonds cake, the name cames from the Capri island
This is a chocolate and almonds cake, the name cames from the Capri island
Ingredients
Serves: 0
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Cups
- 200 grams sugar
- 5 large eggs (free range)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 200 grams ground almonds (blanched, lightly toasted)
- 50 grams ground hazelnuts (lightly toasted)
- 250 grams butter (melted and cooled)
- 200 grams dark chocolate (70% cocoa, melted)
- gram liquore strega (1 small glass)
- 1 teaspoon almond essence
- 7 ounces sugar
- 5 large eggs (free range)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 7 ounces almond meal (blanched, lightly toasted)
- 2 ounces hazelnut meal (lightly toasted)
- 9 ounces butter (melted and cooled)
- 7 ounces bittersweet chocolate (70% cocoa, melted)
- gram liquore strega (1 small glass)
- 1 teaspoon almond essence
Method
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