Tortionata di Lodi (Italian Lodi Almond Cake) The tortionata is not a soft cake and it was never meant to be one. It comes out of the oven as a thin golden disc about 1/2 inch (12 mm) thick, hard right through, and you do not cut it. You put it on the table and strike the centre once with the heel of your hand, or the handle of a knife, and it breaks into irregular shards that everybody picks up with their fingers. In Lodi that is simply how the cake is served, and anyone rea