Tag: Soft

Cocoa cake with a soft center recipe, the recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

How can you get a delicious pie al cocoa with a soft heart like what is offered in many restaurants as dessert? The question remains a mystery until you try to prepare it and you actually discover a very simple recipe.

The secret lies in cooking, a step that must be paid close attention to to obtain the desired result. Enough indeed a few minutes more or less in the oven for failing to prepare. Take up the challenge and then dig in: only in this way will you find out if you have overcome it!

The cocoa cake with a soft centre it’s a perfect idea for a “chocolaty” dessert for Saint Valentine. Also discover: Chocolate cake, papaya compote, Cocoa tarts with soft pear centre.

Plum cake: 15 recipes for a soft breakfast or snack – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

From breakfast to snack, the plum cake conquers adults and children alike. Its name means “plum cake”: in England it is prepared, in fact, with these fruits, but the classic plum cake recipe it also involves the use of candied fruit and raisins instead of plums.

The dough is soft: at the base of flour, eggs, sugar, butter you can add other flavors and ingredients to taste, such as lemon for example, to make the plum cake different every time. The characteristic shape of this dessert is that of a parallelepiped, to be obtained with a box mould. The plum cake is easy to prepare: just mix the ingredients, pour the mixture into the mold and bake.

Plum cake, recipes for the cold season

In autumn and winter the plum cake can be enriched with seasonal fruit like apples and pears, with dried fruit like walnuts and hazelnuts or, again, with carrots, pumpkin and chocolate. By dividing the dough in two and coloring one of the parts with cocoa, plum cakes can be obtained two-tone or marbled. Here are some ideas: Plum cake with pears, Plum cake with carrots, apples and coconut, Plum cake with pears and amaretti biscuits with crumble, Plum cake with carrots, Plum cake with walnuts, Hazelnut and carrot plum cake with lemon cream, marbled plum cake with pumpkin and chocolate, Oil and cocoa plum cake, two-tone plum cake, Marbré plum cake with Matcha tea.

Plum cake, recipes for the summer

When it’s hot we can play with all the colorful fruit of the summer, as well as herbs. Among the ideas that you can draw inspiration from are these: Plum cake with figs, Strawberry grape plum cake, Plum cake with lemon and berries, Plum cake with rosemary and blueberries.

Our plum cakes to prepare without hesitation

Dry January, what it is and soft drinks to try – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Here we are in full Dry January, and if we talk about it this year it is also thanks to the French president Emmanuel Macron, who has just said he is against the idea of institutionalizing the initiative: an invitation not to drink alcohol for an entire month, January in fact. For him, a well-known lover of good drinking, it is not necessary to officially promote abstinence from alcohol, but his stance has sparked a controversy of international dimensions which has involved enthusiasts and expert commentators.

What is Dry January

What is certain is that the position of the French president goes against the trend: now almost all over the world there is a race to prove the benefits of Dry Januaryan initiative born in England in 2013 thanks to the athlete Emily Robinson and the association Alcohol Change UK, British body that raises awareness of the effects of alcohol. One way to promote the conscious use of alcohol, to remind everyone of the risks of use and abuse, and to invite even moderate drinkers to experience what it is like to do without it for a symbolic period, giving their liver a break. In fact, many studies have demonstrated the advantages of alcohol abstinence are many, even in the short term as well as in the long term, and which reflect on everyone’s physical and mental well-being.

The new trend of non-alcoholic drinks

So, password: lighten. How many years have we heard it? Many. Yet she never goes out of fashion, on the contrary (rightly) she renews herself by adapting to the evolution of the times. For this reason, even the world of mixing has now been involved in the process and it is difficult to imagine a cocktail bar that is not able to offer low-alcohol drinks and mocktails (a neologism that derives from the portmanteau of two words mock = fake + cocktail).

What are the new alcohol-free drinks like?

The good news is that the era of syrupy long drinks based on fruit juices and smoothies has been replaced, or enriched, by that of fermented products such as kombucha (sparkling teas that could replace bubbles) and switchel (an invigorating mix based of apple cider vinegar, ginger, honey and lemon), from fruit and vegetable extracts, from sodas offered in every imaginable flavor and above all from non-alcoholic spirits.

The new alcohol-free products

In Italy and around the world this trend is naturally reflected on the market and on the choice of large groups (and small producers) to have one or more alcohol-free products in their catalogue. From 2015, the year of debut of Seedlip (the line of non-alcoholic spirits, distributed by Diageo, which is by far the best known and served in cocktail bars), to today the panorama has rapidly enriched itself, so much so that forecasts speak of a growth of 400% for the next few years.