Food and Travel Magazine | Torta Caprese (chocolate and almond cake)

Ingredients

• 200g salted butter, plus extra to grease
• 200g whole skinned almonds
• 200g dark chocolate, minimum 70% cocoa solids, broken into squares
• 4 eggs, separated
• 200g caster sugar
• icing sugar, to dust
• orange ice cream (optional), to serve
• If you can only find skin-on almonds, blanch them in boiling water for a few minutes then rub between 2 tea towels – the skins will come off quite easily.