Torta Caprese
This delicious torta caprese recipe is moist and chocolatey and will have you wishing you could start all over again.
Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 300 grams of peeled and ground almonds
- 250 grams of dark chocolate
- 250 grams of butter
- 200 grams of sugar
- icing sugar to decorate
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour a 9x9 inch cake pan.
- Chop the peeled almonds in the food processor to a fine grind (like an almond flour)
- Let the butter soften at room temperature and melt the chocolate using your favorite melting method.
- Divide the egg yolks from the whites.
- Whip the egg whites with half the sugar.
- Beat the egg yolks with the remaining sugar and softened butter, add the chocolate and very gently pour in the almonds.
- At this point, proceed to gently incorporate the egg whites, stirring with a spatula from top to bottom.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 50 minutes ... let cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
