Torta Caprese

published by chris73 on Apr 25, 2009

A cake from the beautiful Capri in Italy. Close to brownies but for some people much better. Almonds and chocolate in a divine mixture.

Ingredients

  • 400 grams almonds powder
  • 250 grams sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 250 grams butter
  • 1 short drink glass of rum
  • 250 grams bitter chocolate

Method

  1. Melt together chocolate and butter.
  2. Whip up in the mixer the crocuses of the eggs with 200 grams from the sugar until the mixture becomes puffy.
  3. Add the previous mixture into the melted chocolate and butter. Also add the almonds powder and the rum.
  4. Whip up by dipper well until all ingredients to be homogenized.
  5. Whip up in mixer the albumens of the eggs with 50 grams of sugar to a dense meringue.
  6. Add the meringue in the mixture and whip gently.
  7. Place the mixture in a baking pan (22-24cm diameter and 5cm deep)covered by butter and flour.
  8. Bake in preheated oven at 180oC for 1 hour.

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3 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by Joie Schmidt
    April 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pm #

    Sounds good!

    Blessings.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.

  2. # 2 by Evelyn Moore
    April 26th, 2009 at 7:07 am #

    this one is a must!

  3. # 3 by Sophie
    May 7th, 2009 at 3:22 am #

    MMMMMMMM…I love it! Very tasty!!

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