Chocolate Caprese Cake - sugar

Method

• Preheat the oven to 200C.
• Combine the almond flour with the granulated sugar.
• Melt the dark chocolate over a double boiler with the butter.
• Beat the egg yolks with a mixer and add the melted chocolate and butter mixture.
• Add the seeds from the vanilla bean, the salt and the flour and sugar mixture.
• Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold them carefully into the batter.
• Line a round cake pan with wax paper and add the batter.
• Bake the cake at 200C for the first 10 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 170C and continue baking for an additional 40 minutes.
• Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool completely and sprinkle it with a generous amount of powdered sugar.