Chocolate Nut Torte

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs (separated)
• 1 cup pecans (chopped)
• 4 oz chocolate (grated; semi-sweet or bitter sweet)
• 1½ cup sugar
• ½ cup matzo meal
• 2 delicious apples (peeled, cored and grated)

Instructions:

notes on ingredients:

original recipe used walnuts instead of pecans

original recipe uses semi-sweet chocolate; bitter sweet works fine without adjustments

ok to substitute other apples  -  aim for about 350 grams

size of chopped nuts - median size of about 1/8 inch

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Beat egg yolks with sugar until lemon colored and thick enough to ribbon.  May help to start beating egg yolks before adding the sugar, but works either way.
3. Gently stir in walnuts, chocolate, apples and matzo meal.
4. Beat egg whites until they form stiff but not dry peaks.  Fold into egg yok mixture genly but thoroughly.  No big globs of white remaining.
5. Turn mixture into a 9" spring form pan and bak 60 minutes or until cake springs back when you press with fingers.  
6. Cool cake and go around perimeter before releasing the spring.

Source: Elaine Harris