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Grandma’s village cake recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Grandma's village cake recipe



There country cake, also called milk cake, is a traditional Lombard recipe, particularly from the Milan area. Grandmothers especially remember it well, because it is a dessert created to reuse dried bread.

This typical cake from Brianza is a dessert with ancient origins, let’s say the typical dessert of Sunday in the countryside. It certainly has many variations, like all simple recipes, but traditionally it is always made with bread soaked in milk.

In fact, this is how it was born: on this basis of bread stalethe ingredients that the farmers found at home were added, such as dried fruit, raisins and, for those who had the possibility, fine pine nuts or dark chocolate flakes.

The recipe we propose today includes the addition of amaretti, cocoa, pine nuts, raisins And candied fruit! We didn’t want to limit ourselves to just a few ingredients, but we preferred to offer you a complete dessert full of different flavours. So much so that there’s even lemon zest!

The rustic flavor of this cake will not disappoint you: it is so simple that it can accompany you from breakfast to snack time. And for those with a sweet tooth, even for an after-hours snack! Try it too bread, pear and peach cake!

From: Valeria Antonini for the #familyrecipes column



Mimosa cake: the classic recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Mimosa cake: the classic recipe



There mimosa cake it is the classic special recipe dedicated to Women’s Day. It is a preparation with an incredible scenographic effect, but also a dessert that is good to eat, multi-layered, rich in taste and above all in love, almost devotion towards the woman. It would be nice if fathers, sons and brothers tried their hand at preparing this delicacy, to dedicate the exquisite mimosa cake to the women of the house.

How to make Mimosa Cake

There mimosa cake It is prepared by making a sponge cake which is cut into layers and filled with chocolate cream and cream. The last disc of sponge cake will be crumbled on the surface to resemble mimosas and this is precisely the most significant aspect of this delicious confectionery product. Here are the steps to make it mimosa cake.



Mimosa Cake Recipe, the classic recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Mimosa Cake Recipe, the classic recipe


There Mimosa cake it is called this precisely because in appearance it resembles the flower homonym. It is a dessert based on sponge cake soaked in Grand Marnier, maraschino, marsala or pineapple juice and filled with custard or Diplomatic creamthen covered with cream or Chantilly and completed on the surface with sponge cake broken into cubes.

The Mimosa cake has become the sweet symbol of Women’s Day which occurs on March 8th and is also used to prepare it for Easter. But where does the Mimosa cake originate? The dessert was invented in Rieti, in the 1960s, by the restaurateur Adelmo Renzi: his original recipe is still secret, but it is not impossible to make something very similar.

Also discover these recipes: Mimosa cheesecake, Surprise mimosa Easter egg, Yogurt and strawberry mimosa cake, Strawberry mimosa, Mimosa cake with chocolate.

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