I hope you remember the film 'The Best Offer'(La Migliore Offerta, 2013) with Geoffrey Rush, who plays there Virgil Oldman, famous collector and aesthete, who gets in a weird but fascinating story?
If you haven't watched it - I recommend to do this (you can read about the film here) and if you did you have to remember a very special pie, which was presented to Virgil in his favorite restaurant. I tried millions of times to find an original recipe of that pie, but all I could find was in the film. So, Virgil's pie consisted from marzipan and almonds and it was based on a recipe from the Renaissance epoch. Not much information, ha?
That is why I decided to try good-old recipe, add some almonds and sugar powder.
So, for the pie we need:
1 pie crust, prebaked until gold (the crust recipe you can find here)
150-170 g bitter cocoa or bitter-sweet black chocolate
300 g butter
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup sugar
150-200 g almonds
sugar powder
salt
Preparation time:
25 minutes
Baking time:
35-40 minutes
Hard?
No
Take butter, add first few spoons of cocoa and pound it all together very carefully.
The mass has to be homogeneous. It's a bit sweaty work, I must say:)
Here's what I got as a result:
Than take eggs and stir them good with sugar, vanilla extract and salt.
Also it's a good moment to put the crust into preheated oven. Bake it until light gold.
Then, combine the cocoa mass with stirred eggs.
Looks amazingly nice isn't it?:) And tastes super good!
Take the crust and fill it. Add almonds and bake 35-40 minutes. After, leave the pie until cool. Then sprinkle with sugar powder.
You can serve the pie with ice-cream or hot vanilla sauce. But even without anything it's delicious!
2 Comments
Yum! This looks amazing!!!
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Tnx!:))
Deletep.s. it's quite risky to eat the filling before baking:)
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