Potado Masher's Cake With Ricotta Cheese.
Category: Desserts & Sweets | Blog URL: http://italiankitchensecrets.blogspot.com/2009/03/potato-mashers-cake-with-ricotta-cheese.html
This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.
Ingredients
You need for the shortcrust pastry:
10 1/2 ounces all purpose flour
5 1/5 ounces sugar
3 1/2 ounces butter
2 eggs
1 bag baking powder for cakes
For the stuffing:
25 ounces ricotta cheese
3 1/2 ounces sugar
Decoration:
inch dark chocolate chopped irregular pieces
icing sugar
Preparation
1
Mix all the ingredients to make the pastry and divide the loaf in two parts of the same wheight.
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3
Spread them quite evenly but don't worry if you see holes between the strands: the dough, rising, will close them.
4
Mix ricotta cheese with sugar then pour on the base of pastry's strands, put the other half of the loaf in the potato masher and cover ricotta with the same process, once again don't worry about holes :)
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6
Bake for 45 minutes.
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This recipe is easy peasy, quick and a sure success for any kind of meal, with family, friends, colleagues...
The cake in the photo misses of the last icing sugar sprinkle but I wanted to take the picture immediately :P
Yield:
8
Added:
February 25, 2010
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