for 4 persons
Ingredients
-6 eggs
-200 g of almonds
-50 g of bread crumbs
-200 g of sugar
-1 cup of very strong coffee (we recommend Capoccetti's "Red quality" blend)
for the cream:
-100 g of butter
-100 g of sugar
-1 yolk
-1 cup of strong coffee (we recommend Capoccetti's "Espresso quality" blend)
for the icing:
-100 g of icing sugar
-3 spoons of very strong coffee (we recommend Capoccetti's "Red quality" blend)
-"Capoccetti chocolates" to decorate with
Preparation:
Stir 6 egg yolks into the sugar in a bowl, and then add the grinded almonds. Add so the bread crumbs after you have sifted them and soaked them in the very strong coffee. In the end, add 5 albumen whipped to a very firm froth. Pour the mix into a greased cake tin, and put it in a moderately heated oven. To be assure that the cake is baked, stick a toothpick in it: if it comes out dry, the cake is ready.
Prepare the cream now. Make the butter swollen and foamy, and add the sugar, the egg yolks
and the cup of strong coffee. In the meanwhile the cake will be cooled off. Cut it horizontally in two discs, and put the prepared cream between them. Cover the cake with the icing which you prepare by mixing patiently the icing sugar and the three spoons of very strong coffee in a small frying pan, on a not too warm hotplate. You will get a thick and light mixture which you pour on the cake.
Decorate the icing around the cake, and the "Capoccetti chocolates" with a coffee bean in the middle of it.