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A whimsical cake featuring amaretti biscuits, hazelnuts, and chocolate.

A whimsical cake featuring amaretti biscuits, hazelnuts, and chocolate.

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A rich and decadent flat cake featuring amaretti biscuits, hazelnuts, chocolate, and candied fruits, all soaked in a small amount of liqueur, and lightene…

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Recipe from Giulyfree, Absinthe, Snowdog and 1 other contributors (Wikibooks), adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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This whimsical cake can be made with whatever you have on hand: amaretti biscuits, hazelnuts, chocolate, candied fruit, and a little liqueur. The whipped cream gives it a light and airy texture. It remains flat, about 2 cm high.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time25 min
  • Cook time30 min
  • Resting2 hr
  • Total2 hr 55 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodfour
  • Vegetarian

Ingredients

8 people
  • $0.11
  • $0.37
  • $1.76
  • $2.63
  • $1.40

Directions

  1. Soak the candied fruits in the liqueur.
  2. Cut the amaretti biscuits in half: one half finely, and the other half more coarsely. ≈ 8 min
  3. Chop the chocolate and the hazelnuts. ≈ 8 min
  4. Whip the egg whites to stiff peaks. ≈ 10 min
  5. Combine the sugar, softened butter, and egg yolks until you have a smooth mixture. ≈ 3 min
  6. Add all the other ingredients, including the fruit liqueur, and mix well. ≈ 4 min
  7. Finally, gently fold in the whipped egg whites and work the dough until there are no visible streaks of white. ≈ 4 min
  8. Line a baking dish or a hollow dish with parchment paper (the cake should not be more than 2 cm high) and pour in the mixture. ≈ 3 min
  9. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (350 °F) on the top rack for 30 minutes.

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Ingredients

  • 100 grams of sugar
  • 40 g of butter
  • 100 g of hazelnuts (or almonds or walnuts)
  • 100 g of dark chocolate (or milk chocolate)
  • 150 g of amaretti biscuits (or other biscuits, or, if unavailable, 30g of flour)
  • 100 g of candied fruit (or grapes)
  • 1/2 small glass of liqueur (e.g., ratafia, rum, or another)
  • 4 eggs

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