Ingredients FOR PASTA PASTA
- 250 g flour
- 130 g butter
- 80 g sugar
- 1 egg
- Marsala
- salt
Ingredients FOR THE PINE NUT CREAM
- 500 g milk
- 80 g semolina
- 75 g sugar
- 50 g pine nuts
- 10 g butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 vanilla bean
- salt
FOR THE PASTA PASTA
Jumbled up flour with sugar and a pinch of salt; soak it with the butter in pieces until you get a sandy mixture. Quickly knead it with the egg and 1 tablespoon of Marsala. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator to rest for 2 hours.
FOR THE PINE NUT CREAM
Bring boil the milk with the vanilla bean cut in half lengthwise; pour the semolina in the rain and cook, stirring constantly for 4-5 minutes; remove from the heat, remove the vanilla and add the sugar, a pinch of salt and butter; mix well, then add 40 g of chopped pine nuts.
Let cool for 3-4 minutes and then add the eggs; let the cream cool.
FOR THE CAKE
Roll out shortcrust pastry 3 mm thick and part of it lined with a low cake tin (ø 22-24 cm).
stuffed the cake with the pine nut cream, now cold, distribute the remaining pine nuts and close with strips of shortcrust pastry arranged in a grid. Brush the pastry with a little milk and bake the cake at 180 ° C for 45-50 minutes.
This recipe has already been read 188 times!