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

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.

Mimosa cake: in Milan, 10 addresses where you can buy the best ones – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

The Mimosa cake is the gastronomic equivalent of the plant that symbolizes International Women’s Day. A soft and joyful dessert, with sponge cake cubes, yellow like those same flowers. We would like to point out the 10 pastry shops in Milan that more or less remain faithful to the traditional formula, invented in the 1950s by Adelmo Renzi, a chef and pastry chef from Rieti.

We have already told you the story of the Mimosa cake, as well as the traditional recipe. So we decided to select the 10 pastry shops, between the historic ones and the more recent ones, located in the various neighborhoods of Milan and the surrounding area, so that for the anniversary of March 8th you can choose to buy it in the place closest to home or be inspired by the one displayed in the shop window (not just yellow…) and to replicate it as you wish. Happy March 8th everyone!

Our recipe for making Mimosa cake at home

The 10 pastry shops in Milan and surrounding areas

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Recipe Rice cakes and amaretto ice cream, the recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

The recipe for rice cakes and amaretto ice cream is our reinterpretation of the rice cake typical of Emilian cuisine, a dessert that is not too sweet, simple, but substantial. The recipe has peasant origins and its diffusion in Emily it happened thanks to weedersthe women who went to collect the rice in the areas of Vercelli, which were often paid with part of the harvest.

In this preparation, we served a ice creammacaroon to accompany a mignon version of the cake that we enriched with almonds and cedar.

Also find out how to accompany it traditional rice cake with an amaretto liqueur and the rice cake recipe prepared as a Sweet risotto with custard.