Almond and Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 150 g almonds
• 150 g sugar
• 100 g chocolate
• 60 g potato flour (starch)
• 50 g butter
• 3 dl milk
• 4 eggs
• vanilla
• 100 g flour

Instructions

1. Pound the peeled, dried almonds fine with a third of the sugar.
2. Make a roux with butter, potato flour and milk; stir in grated chocolate and remaining sugar, then the almonds.
3. Aromatise with vanilla sugar, cool, and fold in separately beaten eggs.
4. Line a tin with the plain pastry of recipe 153, add the filling a finger thick, bake in a Dutch oven, and cut into diamonds when cold.