Tag: Cake

Nutella biscuit cake – Italian Cuisine

First, finely chop the biscuits, then add them to the yogurt and mix to create a homogeneous mixture.

Line the mold with parchment paper, then pour a little more than half of the biscuit mixture into it and flatten it with your hands to create a uniform base, rising slightly along the edges.
Pour the Nutella in the center and spread it on the surface of biscuits.

With the remaining biscuit mixture, create a disc on a sheet of parchment paper, then move it on the cake and compact the edges, then leave it to rest in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

The Nutella biscuit cake is ready: decorate it to taste with icing sugar and whipped cream and serve.

Salted plum cake with peas recipe – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

600 pea pods
200 g 00 flour
100 g milk
120 g semi-seasoned pecorino
100 g raw ham
80 g mild extra virgin olive oil
4 eggs
30 g grated Parmesan
10 whole basil leaves
salt
pepper
1 packet of yeast for savory pies

Duration: 2 h

Level: Middle

Dose: 6-8 people

To prepare the salted plum cake with peas, start by shelling 600 g of pods: do not throw away the pods and once emptied remove the stalks, wash them well and cut them into pieces; boil them in boiling salted water for 5-6 minutes, drain and dip them in cold water. Then drain them, blend them and pass them through a sieve to eliminate the fibers: use only a part of this mashed pods (with the rest you can prepare a soup).
Blanch 150 g of peas shelled for 1-2 minutes in salted boiling water, drain and dip them in cold water.
beat with a fork 4 eggs with 80 g of mild extra virgin olive oil (otherwise it is better to mix 50 g of olive oil with 30 g of seed oil); add 120 g of mashed pods to the eggs, 100 g of milk, salt and pepper.
In another bowl mix 200 g of 00 flour and 1 sachet of yeast for savory pies, pour the egg mixture, begin to mix, then add 120 g of grated half-seasoned pecorino cheese, 30 g of grated Parmesan cheese, 100 g of strips of ham and 10 leaves whole basil, salt and pepper.
Pour in a well-buttered and floured 1-liter cake mold, and bake at 180 ° C for 50-60 minutes (if it is too colored, it can be covered with aluminum foil).
Remove from the oven and after 5-8 minutes remove it from the mold and let it cool on a wire rack.
serve just warm with raw ham or culatello and stracchino: delicious!

Carbonated Cake – Carbonated Cake Recipe – Italian Cuisine

Put the slightly soft butter in a bowl, add sugar, salt and vanilla and whisk until the mixture is light and frothy, for at least 10 minutes or until the sugar is completely dissolved in the butter.
Then start adding 1 egg at a time, waiting for the previous one to be completely incorporated before moving on to the next.

Also add grated peel and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, finally add sieved and carbonated flour, alternating between them.

Pour the mixture into the buttered and floured mold, level the surface, then bake for 45 minutes at 180 ° C in a preheated oven (remember to always do the toothpick test when you start to smell the sweet smell around the kitchen).

Let it cool completely, then gently turn out the cake and place it on a serving plate.
At this point prepare the glaze: pour the alchermes into a bowl and add the icing sugar little by little, until you obtain a smooth and homogeneous mixture, fluid but not too liquid.
Decorate the donut with the icing.

The carbonated cake is ready, decorated as you like with sprinkles or sugar, let the icing dry and serve.