With Love... From Nonnina's Kitchen: Torta Di Amaretti

Hello Everyone!

I do sincerely apologize to anyone who comes by and reads my blog for not posting sooner! This year has been especially busy but we're getting back into it just in time for the fall!

This past July my family and I visited Italy for about 3 weeks it was absolutely beautiful!!! We had the opportunity to spend quality time with some of our family and we were able to visit Nonnina and Nonnos hometown with them. They led us through beautiful Abruzzo, tasting all the yummy treats along the way.

(Nonnina and I, in her hometown of Fossacesia)

While we were there, we visited Nonnina's niece Ida and her beautiful family. She had us over for dinner and made us a delicious torta (cake) that is gluten free but does NOT sacrifice any flavour. Nonnina and I want to share this recipe with all of you today!

Enjoy!!

Ingredients:

6 large eggs
150g of sugar
400g of crushed amaretti cookies
500g of ricotta cheese
Amaretto liquor to finish

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350.
In a mixer, combine 6 eggs with sugar.
In a food processor crush the amaretti cookies, make sure they are not too fine.
Once the eggs and sugar have been combined, on medium speed add the ricotta and mix until combined.
Once combined, on low speed add the crushed amaretti to the blender and mix until combined.
Depending on how think you'd like your cake, pour the mixer into a cake pan and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
Once you take the cake out of the oven, pour some amaretti liquor over top and let cool. The flavour of this cake is very rich so you can cut into small bite sized squares to serve.