This is my best cake (even equal to my best chocolate cake), it has no cocoa or chocolate, but served two or three hours after baked it's absolutely tasty
Ingredients
- Flour 350g / 12 oz
- Zucchero 150g / 5 oz
- Baking powder 16g / 0.5 oz
- Salt
- Grated peel of one lemon
- Butter 150g / 5 oz
- Large eggs 2 (one only egg white)
- Whipping cream 0.5 l (milk 0.5, flour 50g / 2 oz, sugar 50g / 2 oz, yolks 2, one piece of lemon peel)
- Round cake pan with 28 cm/ 11 inc diameter
- Oven 170°C / 340F, static, central/bottom level
- 40 minutes
- Mix powders (flour, sugar, salt, baking powder)
- Add one egg and one yolk but don't mix
- Cut butter into little cubes and add without mix
- Don't mix but pinch and crumble the biggest parts
- Keep the mix in fridge and prelare the whipping cream
- Mix together milk, yolks, flour and sugar
- Place in a boiler using a strainer (to keep out flour and sugar grain)
- Add lemon peel
- Cook the cream about 5 minutes to thicken (mix very well while cooking)
- Take off lemon peel
- Place one mix half into baking pan, then cover with whipping cream ad at last cover with the second mix half and bake
Italian version of this recipe
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