Torta della Nonno is a delicious cake filled with chocolate. You may have heard of torta della Nonna or Grandmother’s cake and this is the Grandfather’s cake version with chocolate which the grandmother’s cake doesn’t have. Both cakes named after grandparents are traditional Italian recipes you will find in many restaurants in Italy. For the recipe for Torta della Nonna click here
Ingredients for a 22/24 cm mold:
Shortcrust pastry:
300 g of flour 00
2 medium eggs
100 g of sugar
75 g of seed oil
1 pinch of salt
8 g of baking powder
lemon peel
Custard: (For video instructions of the custard see here)
500 gr of fresh whole milk
4 yolks
120 grams of sugar
40 gr of corn starch
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
lemon peel
50 g of dark chocolate
15 g of pine nuts
15 g of almonds
powdered sugar
Below is the video instructions of Torta alla Nonno by Le Ricette di Terroresplendore