Neapolitan Easter Cake
To make this recipe were used following D’Amico items:
Ingredients
1 kg frozen short-crust pastry
700 g ewe's Ricotta cheese
400 g cooked wheat
600 g sugar
1 lemon
50 g candied citrus peel
50 g candied orange peel
50 g mix of other candied peels
100 g milk
30 g butter or lard
5 eggs + 2 egg yolks
1 pack vanillin
1 spoon orange blossom water
1 pinch cinnamon (optional)
Preparation
Defrost the short-crust pastry at room temperature. Place the cooked wheat, the milk, the butter and the peel of 1 lemon in a saucepan, cook for 10 min stirring frequently until creamy in texture. In a separate bowl, blend the Ricotta cheese, the sugar, the 5 eggs + 2 egg yolks, a pack of vanillin, 1 spoon of orange blossom water and a pinch of cinnamon (optional). Beat until the mixture becomes very thin. Add some citrus peel and the cubed candied peels. Mix all ingredients with the cooked wheat. Spread the defrosted pastry using a rolling pin until the pastry is ½ cm in thickness and place it in the greased baking tray of about 30 cm diameter, cut off the excess pastry, spread it out once more and cut it into strips. Pour the Ricotta mixture onto the pastry in the baking tray, even it out, fold over the pastry edges and garnish with the pastry strips, creating a pastry strip grid to be brushed with a beaten egg yolk. Place in the preheated oven at 180°C for 30 min or until the cake has turned amber-coloured. Leave to cool and, prior to serving, dust with icing sugar.
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