Almond and Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• g almonds
• g sugar
• g chocolate
• g potato flour (starch)
• g butter
• dl milk
• eggs
• vanilla
• 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.