Torta di Nocciole delle Langhe (Italian Langhe Hazelnut Cake) The torta di nocciole of the Langhe contains no wheat flour. Nothing was taken out to please anybody: the recipe was built, long before anyone called it a choice, out of what the hills produced. Nuts, eggs, sugar, salt. That single absence decides everything. With no gluten there is nothing in this batter to develop, so every minute of mixing past the necessary one costs air and costs height. The cake leaves the ti