GORDON RAMSAY RECIPES

Easy, very easy indeed. Here's how to prepare a good cake for breakfast and snack "weighing" the ingredients with a spoon: the result will surprise you

Few ingredients, few minutes of preparation and cooking, but so much taste. The secret of Torta 12 tablespoons is very easy to prepare and does not require much technique. Rather. Given the measurable doses with the sole aid of the spoon (of each basic ingredient we will take 12 tablespoons in fact) and the procedure that only involves whipping the eggs and incorporating them to the rest of the ingredients, we can serenely say that this recipe is available to everyone, including beginners.

Recipe

Ingredients

12 tablespoons of flour, 12 tablespoons of sugar, 12 tablespoons of water or milk, 10 tablespoons of seed oil, 3 eggs, a sachet of vanilla sugar and one of vanilla yeast, the grated rind of a lemon, powdered sugar to dust , butter and flour for the mold.

Method

Beat the sugar and whole eggs and add the lemon peel and vanilla sugar. At this point, add oil, flour, water or milk (for a richer result) and mix until the mixture is smooth and homogeneous. Dissolve the vanilla yeast in two fingers of warm water and add it to the dough. Now turn on the oven at 180 ° C, butter and flour the mold, fill it with the mixture and bake for about 45 minutes.

The variants

The recipe you find above is the basic preparation from which to try lots of tasty cakes. Starting from the version with chocolate and ricotta drops that is obtained by adding these ingredients to the base dough or the one dedicated to the little ones that is prepared by replacing the fruit juice to 12 tablespoons of water or milk. The idea of adding is also fanciful 4 tablespoons of marsala and two handfuls of raisins, while those who love the great classics will not resist turning this preparation into the most classic of cocoa cakes. To do this, just add 4 tablespoons of well sieved cocoa powder to the mixture: for the chocolate version, instead, melt it in a bain-marie and gently incorporate it into the mixture. So let your imagination run wild: you can add dried fruit, candied fruit, herbs and spices at will or enrich this preparation with farce, icing and topping.

They are the most famous chocolate sweets in the United States and are prepared in no time. With hazelnuts they become even greener. Seeing is believing!

Perfect to finish a dinner, the hazelnut brownies they are actually part of those desserts that would be eaten at any time of the day. Soft and delicious, they lend themselves to being soaked in milk for breakfast or served smoothly with a mid-morning coffee or a tea to snack. Accompanied with a tablespoon of cream instead become an unforgettable dessert.

Black or white chocolate?

The original brownies are prepared with del dark chocolate, better if at 75%. A black chocolate with a higher percentage of cocoa would give the sweets a taste too strong, almost bitter. There is also a white version of these delicious sweets and is obviously prepared with del White chocolate. Guess what are they called? Blondies, of course!

Here is the recipe for your brownies

Ingredients: 150 g of butter, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 20 g bitter cocoa, 250 g of dark chocolate, 3 eggs, 100 g of minced hazelnuts, 100 g of flour 0, 150 g of brown sugar, a pinch of salt.

Method: start by melting the chocolate in a little milk. In another saucepan melt the butter in a bain-marie and then let it cool. Once warm, add it to the flour, baking powder, sugar and egg yolks, put one at a time. Add also the chocolate, cocoa, the pinch of salt and stir until you have a homogeneous mixture. Add the whipped egg whites until stiff and chopped hazelnuts and pour the mixture into a pan covered with baking paper. Put in preheated oven at 180 ° and cook for 25 minutes. Before removing from the oven check with a toothpick that is well cooked. Then take out, let it cool and then cut into squares. Serve immediately.

And if you want the version gluten free, you can replace the flour 0 with almond flour. The procedure is identical to above.

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