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Santa Claus Cake – Recipe by – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Santa Claus Cake - Recipe by Misya


First, start creaming the butter with sugar and salt, then add the egg and vanilla.
While the butter is whipping, mix the milk, yogurt and food coloring in a separate bowl.

Incorporate the sifted flour into the dough in 3 batches and then also the colored mixture.

Combine bicarbonate of soda and vinegar in a small bowl, mix and add them immediately to the mixture.

Pour everything into the mold lined with baking paper and cook for about 35 minutes in a fan oven preheated to 180°C (be sure to always test with a toothpick, if it comes out moist, lower the temperature to 170°C and cook for another 10 minutes) , then remove from the oven and leave to cool completely.

Prepare the cream: whip the mascarpone and Philadelphia with the icing sugar in a bowl; separately, whip the very cold cream from the fridge, then add the cream to the cheeses, mixing delicately with a movement from the bottom upwards, so as not to cause it to fall apart, then pour the cream into a piping bag with the nozzle. star not too small.

Cut the base in half horizontally, obtaining 2 discs.
Place a disc on the serving dish you have chosen, fill it with the cream and cover with the second disc.

Place a little bit of the cream in a small bowl and add the pink colouring.

Decorate the cake: use the pink face cream, spreading it with a spatula to make it smooth and uniform.
With the white cream, create your beard and hair, using the piping bag, to make them curly.

Color the remaining cream red and create Santa’s dress and hood, completing with Smarties eyes and nose.

The Santa Claus cake is ready, all you have to do is bring it to the table and amaze all your guests.


Cuccìa di Santa Lucia – Italian Cuisine

»Cuccìa di Santa Lucia


First of all, prepare the ricotta cream, working the cheese with the sugar and milk.
Once you have a smooth and fluid cream, add cinnamon, vanilla, salt, diced candied fruit (if you have pumpkin too, so be it) and chocolate chips.
Mix well, then also incorporate the cooked wheat.

The cuccìa di Santa Lucia is ready, serve it in a single common bowl or better still in single-serving bowls.

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Occhi di santa Lucia, how to prepare them with children – Italian Cuisine


They are greedy tarallini to be kneaded together in the family waiting for the night when the saint will bring sweets and gifts to children

If Christmas is everyone's party, Saint Lucia it is above all gods children. It is they who, in the night between 12 and 13 December, anxiously await the arrival of the saint who, according to legend, will pass from house to house on the back of a donkey, leaving treats and gifts to the little ones who have behaved well. Just like the tradition of Christmas Eve, the children who celebrate Saint Lucia, an anniversary felt in this way especially in the cities of northeastern Italy, prepare cookies, milk and a carrot for the donkey for the coming of the saint.

The eyes of Saint Lucia, greedy tarallini

In family, thanks to the afternoons of lockdown where ideas to entertain the children are never enough, the party can start as early as the afternoon of December 12, preparing all together young and old sweets called eyes of Saint Lucia. They are small taralli to the wine covered with a sugar glaze. The recipe comes from Puglia where, as in other regions of Southern Italy such as Sicily, Saint Lucia is celebrated with religious rites and processions and with the preparation of typical dishes. It includes a few simple ingredients that we all have at home: flour, oil, wine, eggs, powdered sugar, water. Younger children can participate in the preparation of the dough that is made with their hands, older children also in the phase in which the taralli are formed and in that of covering with the icing. It will be fun to spend a couple of hours in the kitchen kneading, baking and enjoying!

The recipe for the eyes of Saint Lucia

Ingredients

250 g of 00 flour, 50 g of oil, 50 g of white wine, 1 egg, 150 g of powdered sugar, 25 g of water.

Method

Mix the sifted flour with the oil, wine and egg. Get the children to help you mix the dough well and make it homogeneous. Work initially with a ladle and then with your hands. Now take small pieces of dough and form small strips of dough 1 or 2 centimeters thick. Cut the loaves into shorter pieces of about 8 centimeters which will then be closed in a circle, slightly overlapping the ends, to form the taralli. Once the taralli are complete, finishing the dough, arrange them on a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the icing by mixing the icing sugar and water with a whisk until the mixture is smooth. Cover the taralli with the icing when they have cooled down. Let the icing set and then you can enjoy your Santa Lucia eyes for a snack.

Additions

You can enrich the dough with anise or vanilla, or add lemon juice to the glaze for even more fragrant taralli.

Alternative cookies

The feast of Saint Lucia is also very much felt in Sweden. Here we use to prepare the Lussekatter or cats of Saint Lucia, biscuits that are characterized by the presence of saffron in the dough. If you want to try making them, find the recipe here.

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