Chocolate Cake with Amaretti

2 oz butter

3 eggs, separated

6 amaretti, crushed

2 oz cocoa

3 oz sugar

1/2 pint single cream (light cream?)

cream butter and egg yolks until pale then stir in amaretti, cocoa, sugar and cream. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold them in. Butter a small loaf pan, pour in mixture and put tin in baking pan filled with hot water. Bake at 425 degrees F for 40 minutes. Cool in tin.

adapted from "Chocolate" by Jill Norman