German-Style Brown Bread Cake

Ingredients

• 125 g sweet almonds
• 125 g sugar
• 4 spoonfuls cognac
• 3 heaped spoonfuls grated rye-bread crust
• 5 eggs
• 30 g butter
• 100 g chocolate
• 30 g powdered (icing) sugar

Instructions

1. Work the sugar with two whole eggs, then add the pounded almonds and work again.
2. Stir in the grated rye crust and three yolks, then the cognac.
3. Fold in the three whipped whites.
4. Bake in a greased, sugar-and-flour-dusted tin.
5. Finish with the soft crust of recipe 645, or a glaze of melted butter, chocolate and icing sugar spread on when off the boil.