Cake with Walnuts and Chocolate

Description

In Romanian: Prajitura cu nuci si ciocolata

Ingredients

• 1 lb / 500 g butter
• 1 lb / 500 g confectioner's sugar
• 100 walnuts, shelled and ground
• juice from 1 lemon and a little lemon peel
• 1 egg
• 10 oz / 300 g grated chocolate or 50 g cacao
• butter and breadcrumbs to grease and dust the pan

Directions

1. Cream the butter with the sugar, add beaten yolks, lemon juice, lemon peel, chocolate (grated or melted with 1 tablespoon hot water). In the end, add whipped egg whites and walnuts, mixing gently.
2. The baking pan must be well buttered and sprinkled with fine bread crumbs.
3. Bake at medium heat for 20 – 25 minutes. As soon as it is done, remove from the oven and cut into squares, rectangles or diamonds.