Newberry Family Cookery Book

La Torta di Elisa

A family recipe from Elisa

1 cake

A delicious Italian cake recipe.


Preheat oven to 180°C.

Melt butter. Add mixed dry ingredients (except cocoa). Clump together.

Place half the mixture in a tin, press into base. Cover with a layer of something tasty like jam or Nutella (without sugar).

With the remaining half of the mixture: add cocoa and a little milk (this is optional, depending on whether cocoa is about, and whether it tastes good). Crumble over the cake; covering all the previous layer. (Large and small clumps of dough are no bad thing.)

Bake for 45 minutes (an old oven, so more like 35 with a new one).

When cold, sprinkle with icing sugar.