Minty Lower your perfect cake mix, serene but not comatose, into your cake tin. Forewarn your Aga to 150 and furnace for forty six minutes.
Now wait for the patter of tiny feet yelling 'Torta! Torta! Torta!'. My nephew Vaughan, who's rising five, and my niece Milly, who's three and a half now, can't get enough of this Torta di Castagne and I'm the same. The look on their faces almost makes up for not having kids of my own, which I don't want anyway. Simon and I are far too busy making POSH NOSH. In a funny way, we think of these recipes as our children. Eat and enjoy!