Bread Cake

Mar 18, 2020
Torta del pane

INGREDIENTS

  • 500 g of stale bread
  • 1 litre of milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 180 g sugar
  • 75 g of cocoa (you can actually use light cocoa or chocolate)
  • variables:
  • 100 g of raisins (omit them if you don't like them)
  • 180 g of amaretti biscuits
  • 70 g of pine nuts (you can also use hazelnuts or almonds, or a mix you have)
  • 1 orange (or a lemon, or grappa to soak the raisins in)
  • To decorate I added some almond flakes

PROCEDURE

  • Cut the bread into cubes and soak it in a large bowl with the milk for two hours (you can also do this the night before and put the bowl in the refrigerator).
  • Grate the orange zest and squeeze it.
  • Soak the raisins in the orange juice.
  • Beat the eggs in a bowl.
  • Blend the amaretti with the cocoa.
  • Take the bowl of bread and break it with your hands or a fork (it should become a mush). Add amaretti and cocoa, eggs, orange zest, sugar, pine nuts and raisins squeezed from the juice. Mix well (also with your hands).
  • Line a pan with baking paper or grease it with butter and sprinkle it with cocoa.
  • Pour the mixture and, if you like, sprinkle the almond flakes on top.
  • Bake at 180°, in my oven which is powerful 170°, for an hour (do the toothpick test and remember not to overcook it, it should remain a little moist inside not dry). They say that the next day it is better... if it lasts!

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