Tuesdays with Dorie: Torta Sbrisolona from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a really interesting one! Torta Sbrisolona  is a slice, not a cookie and it’s made with almond flour and cornmeal which gives it a really great texture.

Dorie says:

Translated from the Italian, torta sbrisolona, a traditional cookie that’s been beguiling people since the Renaissance, means “crumbly cake,” but most people think of it as a cookie and I’m voting with the majority here.

(sorry Dorie, I think it’s a slice!)

She goes on to say that the mixture is made like a streusel (actually super easy, in a food processor) and then you “squeeze, pinch and press the dough into nubbins that you toss into the baking pan.” Based on feedback from other Tuesdays with Dorie bakers who made this a couple of weeks ago, I definitely did not follow this advice and packed the very crumbly mixture tightly into the baking tin. I was easily able to lift the slice out of the pan after it had cooled and cut it into bars. the texture is definitely a little crumbly – like an almond shortbread with cornmeal and I enjoyed it well enough. Not sure I’d make it again but at least if I see it in a bakery now, I’d know what the name means!

(Note that I used sliced almonds because that’s what I had on hand but Dorie’s much prettier rendition calls for whole almonds with their skins roughly chopped)

Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Torta Sbrisolona from Dorie’s Cookies on p 93 of Dorie’s Cookies! or here (possible paywall).

 

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