Fruit jam pie

This is a very classic cake: shortcrust pastry and fruit jam

Ingredients

• Flour 250g / 9 oz
  
• Sugar 100g / 3.5 oz
  
• Salt
• Butter 125g / 4.5 oz
  
• Large eggs (yolks) 3
  
• Fruit jam (any) 400g / 14 oz
  

Cooking

• Round cake pan with 24 cm/ 10 inc diameter
• Oven 180°C / 350F, static, central/bottom level
• 30 minutes

Procedure

• Cut butter into medium pieces end let's soft a bit out of fridge
  
• Mix butter and flour (mix with fingers but don't heat butter too much)
  
• Mix yolks in a bowl and add to mix
  
• Add sugar
• Mix all and make a ball
• Cover with a plastic wrap and place in fridge at least 30 minutes
  
• Lay shortcrust pastry into pan (you can use a rolling pin) leaving a high border
• Lay fruit jam on shortcrust base
• Bake
  

Italian recipe

Banana muffin

Banana muffin, soft and delicius

Ingredients

• Flour 250g / 9 oz
  
• Sugar 150g / 5 oz
  
• Salt
• Vanilla powder (optional)
• Baking powdef 16g / 0.5 oz
• Large eges 2
  
• Vegetagle oil 100ml
  
• Milk 200ml
• Banana 200g / 7 oz
  

Cooking

• 12 muffin pans
• Oven 180°C / 330 F, static, central/bottom level
• 25 minutes

Procedure

• Mix powders (flour, sugar, salt, baking powder)
• Add the vegetable oil
  
• Add eggs
• Add milk
• Mix wery well (the mix is very liquid)
• Cut bananas into little cubes ad add to mix
• Place into muffin pans and bake

Italian recipe

Chocolate glazed dark chocolate cake

Recipe name and photo are absolutly clear: if you love the real chocolate (the dark chocolate) this cake if for you.

Ingredients

• Flour 50g / 2 oz
  
• Dark chocolate 200g / 7 oz
  
• Sugar 200g / 7 oz
  
• Butter 100g / 3.5 oz
  
• Large eggs 4
• Rhum 2 tablespoon (10 ml)
• Glaze: dark chocolate 100g / 3.5 oz
  

Cooking

• Round cake pan with 20-22 cm/ 8-9 inc diameter
• Oven 160°C / 330F, static, central/bottom level
• 55 minutes

Procedure

• Meld butter
• Meld dark chocolate
• Mix melded butter and melded chocolate
• Add sugar ad mix
• Add yolks one by one and mix
  
• Add flour and mix
  
• Add rhum and mix
• Whip up very well egg whites and join to the mix
• Mix very well, put into cake pan and bake
• Make baked cake cold (take out cake from cake pan) at least 30-60 minutes
• Meld chocolate
• Glaze the cake with melded chocolate
• Make glaze cold (it's better to keep in fridge some hours)

Italian version