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Crumbled cake with Easter egg chocolate: the recipe to try now – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

You’ve already tried it Chocolate crumble cake? If you have leftover Easter eggs, use the remaining chocolate for a dessert to eat as a snack or for breakfast is an excellent idea.
Start with the crumbled cake, which is really delicious. This is a simple recipe for a dessert reminiscent of the Mantua sbrisolona cake, the symbol of Mantua pastry making, a preparation of very ancient peasant origins, widespread since the sixteenth century.

The characteristic of the crumbled cake is the dough to pinch and work with your fingersan operation that you may also enjoy to the little onesso as to bring everyone into the kitchen and enjoy working side by side. Childhood recipes are transformed into a heritage of taste and memories For all life. As for the chocolate, you can indulge yourself and melt the leftover pieces of the Easter egg in a saucepan where you can melt the chocolate in a bain-mariealso of different qualities, dark and milk.

You know there is another appetizing one variation of the crumbled cake chocolate? This is a tasty alternative made with ricotta. If you love this combination you could experiment with the crumbled ricotta and chocolate cake and surprise everyone with this really delicious dessert. Alternatively, a delicious dessert to bring to a dinner among friends or family is the recipe for the sbrisolona cake with chocolate cream, ricotta and apples.

The leftover chocolate from the Easter egg it allows us to create many desserts for every occasion: if stored in the right way it will last a long time and provide the inspiration for new delicious experiments culinary. Among the mistakes not to make, remember that it is preferable to avoid the fridge and freezer: to best preserve the chocolate the pantry is sufficient, away from direct sunlight and in a cool corner of the kitchen, avoiding changes in temperature and humidity as much as possible.

Crumbled cake with chocolate

Ingredients

400 g of flour
150 g of sugar
100 g of butter
half a sachet of baking powder to taste
350 g of chocolate
2 eggs
1 pinch of salt

Method

In a bowl, pour the Flourthe yeast and the sugar along with a pinch of salt.
After cutting the butter add it into cubes, gently pinching the dough with your fingers to mix everything together.
In the meantime, melt the chocolate pieces in a bain-marie.
Now it’s time to form a fountain with the Flour. Beat the eggs for a moment and pour them into the center. To knead you can use a fork or continue with your fingers.
After coating with the baking paper a baking tray create a base with part of the freshly made dough.
Now use a spatula to pour all the chocolate onto the surface.
The rest of the dough will be used for cover the cake. The advice is to start from the edges and move towards the center.
Bake at 180° and let it cook for about 40 minutes.
Your crumbled cake with chocolate is ready, you can decorate it by dusting the surface with icing sugar. Now all you have to do is taste it!

Sbrisolona, classic recipe

Have you ever tried the classic sbrisolona recipe? Here’s how to prepare it.

What to do with leftover béchamel: 10 clever ideas – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

You have gratinated the vegetables and made chili lasagnanow the holidays are over and… What to do with leftover béchamel sauce? We are sure that in these festive days there has been no shortage of the aforementioned lasagna or even on your tables crepes And cannelloni, first courses that warm the belly and heart. All united by a great deal of deliciousness homemade bechamel, which, for fear of not being enough, is usually made in large quantities. When it advances, however, it is a great shame to throw it away. What can we do to not waste it?

How to store bechamel

Once cooled, the homemade béchamel can be preserved in the fridge covered with cling film or in a airtight container for two/three days maximum. If you don’t use it during this time, you can freeze it. In the freezerin special containers, the sauce can be kept for a couple of months: in this way they will be avoided waste and you will have bechamel ready to use if you don’t have time to prepare it. Just let it thaw in the fridge or at room temperature before using it. And if it loses consistency, put it back on the heat and thicken it with a little flour.

What to do with leftover béchamel sauce?

As we were saying, leftover béchamel sauce stored correctly in the fridge can be used within a few days to prepare other recipes. You can stock up on lasagna to freeze, you can prepare one baked pasta or a timbale with a empty fridge recipe using the other leftovers. Another idea are the gratin vegetables or stuffed: from fennel to broccoli, from cardoons to endive, seasonal vegetables are perfect for baking with bechamel sauce. What do you say then gods soufflé? There are many ideas: discover all our recipes for using leftover béchamel sauce below and in the gallery.

Vegetable Soufflé Recipe | The Italian kitchen – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Its name comes from the French verb souffler, which means to blow: the souffléIn fact, it’s all about air. A perfect soufflé it swells during cooking and it feels soft and light; it is not the same as flan which is cooked, always in the oven, but in a bain-marie.

The secret to the success of the soufflé is the egg whites which must be whipped until stiff and then incorporated into the rest of the mixture. Soufflé can be made with many ingredients: in this case we show you a vegetable souffléperfect for to recycle vegetables left over from other preparations.

Also try the cheese soufflewhich can be a recipe for recycling leftover cheeses, and the Spinach, gorgonzola and walnut soufflé.